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@@frenchfriedbagel7035 That's the saddest part about this. From what I understand, it was the stockholders who rushed this game out so they could get their money. The people I feel the worst for are the devs. Imagine working on a game for somewhere around seven years, all to have it released too early and be one of the biggest disappointments in quite a long time. I'm glad I prematurely killed all of the hype for this game myself when I saw it was delayed multiple times in one year. I saw this as them not having a good or finished product, so I lost most interest in the game and treated it like EA was putting it out. As of right now, I have 140 hours on PC and I love to hop on and do my thing for a few hours whenever I have the time. That doesn't mean I think what they did was okay, pure disappointment. But I'm so glad I lowered my expectations low enough to be able to enjoy the game.
Im convinced no amount of time would have made this game live up to the hype. You could have given them 20 years and it still would have failed because the entire execution was flawed and CDPR simply werent good enough to execute it even if it wasnt. This company isnt rockstar. They havent been on top of the indusry for 2 decades. They made one masterpiece in 2015 and then deluded fanbois lost the plot and knighted them as gods gift to gaming. Playing Cyberpunk I notice 2 things. 1st is brief moments of genuine quality that never get tied together to form a complete package. 2nd is an absolutely insane scattergun approach where they were grasping at everything they could without any thought as to whether they could accomplish it or not. The game clearly got ripped apart and stiched back up several times during development and the final time was a messy rush job to meet final deadline. They were out their depth, over the top with ideas and out of time in the end. Cyberpunk was NEVER going to be a standout game. If they spend the next couple of years working hard on it and adding to it it at least can end up a half decent game. At least that way they can save some of their reputation and then try again with a more humble and down to earth project afterwards.
CD Project Red giving us Cyberpunk 2077 reminds me of the little boy who really wanted a puppy, and his grandma promised him she would gift him a puppy for his birthday. Then his birthday came and when the little boy opened his gift his grandma had actually hand-knitted him a sweater with a PICTURE of a dog on it. So he began to cry, and then she cried, and nobody was happy and everyone remembered it forever. The End.
But they can still go out and buy a puppy together. The issue and drama can be fixed easily in this example but not in the case of Cyberpunk. It was a real tragedy cause no one cannot fix it and damage has done.
Seriously wasted potential with Jackie. You’ve got Jackie, a character who dreams of making it big like the legends of yesteryear, you’ve got Johnny Silverhand, *the* legend of yesteryear. And you, the single line of communication between these 2 characters, they really missed out on this dynamic.
@@djdarksidejungle559 are you on about evelyn? why would a woman who has just been raped and tortured and humiliated for however long want to have sex with you for saving her? why would you want that?
@@Astaphxios u think she was the corpo love story had jude the street kid had thingy bob the nomad story evelyn was the corpo love story just they cut that bit out
@@VeeTHis Yeah. My friend bought game on discount on Steam, gave criticism and negative review and 2 hours later got deleted. He said things like world isnt fully explorable and quests are bleak but also gave positivity about Jackie and that after his early death game story became awful with Johnny and virus chip that decreased Vs lifespan to a week.
Detailed reviews like this are underrated as fuck because there's just no way to do a big game like this justice in 30 minutes. You need to go in depth for these points to have weight and I'm very glad to see you do it. I will gladly share with my gamer friends.
I mean they most definitely aren't underrated when they get millions if views. Also idk what reviewers you're watching but the best reviewers can easily make a detailed piece on a game in 30 minutes (or even less!) Certainly, 5 hours allows for more opinions than 30 minutes does but as a wise man once said "if I had more time, I would've written a shorter letter".
@@reio1951 I think it should take as long as it needs. I've seen videos that were 8-10 hours long and they were fantastic and made excellent points with plenty of evidence and detail. Shorter videos tend not to allow that, and i've seen people resort to simply saying things like "It's great" without any kind of backing evidence.
@@theincrediblefella7984 i never implied that shorter videos are always better. I enjoy long reviews all the same, I just pointed out that the OP was wrong in saying it is impossible to do games justice in 30 minutes, that's quite a long time in and of itself actually.
Releasing a game that doesn't live up to the hype in it's story and execution is one thing; but to release a game that doesn't even function and broken to the point beyond fixing at realistic time window, is a whole new low altogether.
@Nie wiem Kurde beyond fixing in a reasonable time window. It'll take a long ass time to get the game not only working on a base level, but working well. Years to bring us the vision they promised. If they are even going to try. They already made the money.
It's not that broken. We need to stop this narrative. The problems with the game are OVERWHELMINGLY related to lack of emergent gameplay, shitty-linear-as-shit campaign, TERRRRRRIBLE NPCs, broken cops, no real gravity of choice, etc. The bugs is what plebs complain about tbh. I encountered more bugs in Skyrim and it still got over 1000 hours out of me. The bugs aren't rhe problem.
Not to mention the young lady from Gamespot who gave it a 6/10 before release caused an uproar. People claimed that she reviewed it without even playing the game. She was the only one to give it that low of a score and she was the closest to being right. Amazing
The probelm with her review is that she stated that she couldn't be bothered playing parts of the game. The score given was not the issue, it was the comments she made about how she came to that score that was the issue.
@@aidanr1061 have you PLAYED the game? I don’t blame her, the main quest line and 85% of side missions are so fucking bad that one can’t be bothered to play the actual good stuff, the good side missions
@@romulofigueroadiaz480 yea I have and totally agree with you. But if your job is to review a game then you should be completing all the content to give your review credibility.
@@aidanr1061 I watched the full review. She mostly spot on. The part that gives the impression that she didn't play the game was cherry picked to make her look bad when she complained about the cop side missions, which were totally boring and pointless as she pointed out.
I clicked on this and thought "Jeez theres's no way someone watches all 5 hours of this" and then I thought "You know what I'm gonna watch all 5 hours of this"
If this was on a talk rant about a game like crysis remastered version yes i could watch a 5 hour But give this guy credit he done really well and how dedicated to this game and how he feels about it and done his research and finding excellent it must of took so much time for him to do this and done a professional job
I personally don’t have a problem with Jackie being killed … I just have a problem with how quickly in game time it happens. I don’t really like how they yadiyadad like 6 months - give me 3 missions, some down time. Some more emotional beats … then when the death happens it’s even more impactful
When I saw the montage of me and Jackie doing missions together, getting our come up, getting my first car, my first apartment, I was so angry! I was supposed to do those things with Jackie, what the hell game!
Also, Jackie could have just been healthy until reaching the taxi (having slotted in the biochip). Then we could have just had Adam Smasher shoot the shit out of Jackie while both of us were running towards Delamain. This would have cemented Adam Smasher as an actual villain, instead of a dude that just "shows up". Now Jackie got injured while falling from a roof, but then still manages to run after me while I'm looting every corner for 30 minutes, and then suddenly bleeds out in the back of a car?
I completely agree with this, but therefore find it even more incredible that even in so little time they got us so attached to Jackie, the man, the myth, the legend. For reference, I've started 3 playthroughs (one for each lifepath), and Jackie's Offrenda got me crying 3/3 times
Defo agreed. That montage we have with Jackie doing gigs should've been entirely playable and is Act 1 of the entire game. Just a string of gigs where we earn money to buy rent our Megabuilding apartment and our crap Archer Hella, meet all the fixers in the game, and most importantly spend time and bond with best choombata Jackie Welles before shit hits the fan in Act 2 with the Konpeki Plaza heist. That said. This can only be possible if they focused on making the game a action adventure game with a _linear story_ like Far Cry or GTA. *Not as an RPG that lets you pick choices and enjoy & suffer the consequences.* If they focused on making this game an RPG, then they need to get rid of the major and broad strokes of the main quest. Jackie dying *is an option.* And V is not our player character, but a completely custom one who we have near complete control over.
@@AnimusVolare The witcher 3 is not exclusively an RPG but adopts some of the popular mechanics of an rpg like branching quest lines and consequences that come attached to how you interact with the world and how you approach various stories. For example the whispering hillock questline. The witcher 3 is able to meld action adventure mechanics with rpg mechanics in such a way that it is deeply fun and rewarding, that is what makes it such a good game, and such an immersive game
@@waterdragonsage8460 A game left untouched by the devs since 2018, leaving annoying quest glitches that have existed since launch, or even introducing new bugs like messing up the journal entries which is extremely immersion breaking. Honestly, this game constantly breaks my immersion. For example, when Priscilla gets attacked by a vampire she ends up in the hospital. She will literally be bed-ridden FOREVER because there is no passage of time in this game. Another example is the Novigrad Bathhouse. Once that gets destroyed it will remained closed forever even though that makes zero sense. This game constantly breaks immersion and this is honestly the tip of the iceberg. I still like the game for what it was but it doesn't deserve a 10/10. Poor design IMO
@@AnimusVolare Who said the game deserves a perfect 10? Maybe a 9/10 but definitely not a perfect 10. I can't think of any game on the market that is deserving of a perfect score. And yes the witcher 3 even to this day is full of bugs. Cdpr is clearly not a completely competent company, especially when it comes to play testing and bug fixing their games. They tend to create their games with a start, middle and end mindset. Meaning they don't think much about what's in-between. That is why we need to use this opportunity with cyberpunk 2077 to hold them to a much, much higher standard, and if they don't deliver well...Their reputation will sink their company for good.
@@lyriclyric9814 The story is pretty good aswell as the side quests along with the music. Other than that the game is utter garbage. Should just skip this one out
@@L_Lawliet1907 bro youare literally complementing the main part of the game just to have the same outcome lol and naw im boo off the game its like a reskinned borderlands
The colors being warped at one of the endings is actually something that's in the game for everyone. The doctor actually describes how that is because the chip that was removed caused some damage to neural cortex or something like that. It seems the glitch you had was the fact that it never faded away as it was suppose to.
The saddest part about this debacle is that gamers won't learn. They'll be pissed off for a while and swear to never trust a publisher again. But then another big game will get hyped, millions will preorder it because it's a "trustworthy company" and get angry again. Every publisher and developer seems perfect until they screw up. Don't buy a game you know nothing about.
The bigger problem is when the developer hypes it themselves. Sony Santa Monica Studio is quiet about the next God of War. Naughty Dog (despite TLOUII's divisiveness still has a level of care and attention that is nearly unmatched), Rockstar, and Rocksteady let their games speak for themselves. But CDPR is a master of marketing and rode the hype train themselves.
Gamers learn just fine it’s the fact that hundreds of thousands of new potential gamers are spawned each and every day, kids turn 18, jocks learn what call of duty is, mean girls find Animal Crossing. Gamers like you & I have been doing this thing for a while but don’t underestimate how popular the medium has become and all the new gamers who have yet to learn!!
Because a lot of use just want to move on. It’s basically been the same experience as if a significant other cheated on you. We just and to forget and move on.
Yeah I never bought into the hype.. thank god... but I was so excited and obsessed w thenlast of us universe. And naughty dog hurt me. But ATLEAST there is still SO MUCH I LOVE about last of us 2. It had incredible gameplay and graphics. Story had some flaws and had some amazing things. Some filler. Disrespectful of Joel. But the violence, the gameplay. Man time has helped but theres still pain. But man Intel bad for the people who were singled for cyberpunk. That's a whole nother thing. It was unfinished, broken,etc.. but even if it was finished and not buggy it would still be bad because it's not what was promised. This game was a LIE. The bugs and unfinished was the nails in the coffin
I remember reading comments like "oh time to preorder", or "I normally don't preorder, but I'm going to make an exception for CDPR" and being like oh I hope this doesn't blow up.
So you do bring up a lot of good points and I agree with most of what you're saying, but honestly the biggest diverging opinion I have from what you've said is on Keeanus performance. I've been into Cyberpunk as a tabletop and a setting since I was very young, and Keanu's performance of Johnny Silverhand is spot on with how Johnny was portrayed in Cyberpunk lore. Johnny even as a young rockstar is called jaded, flat, angry and spiteful. I think Keanu really did do a good job, I honestly believe that an energetic Johnny Silverhand would have been out of character. Other than that I agree with you.
I played a lot of the tabletop game with my friends, and Johnny is a hypocrite, compared to how he is in cp2020. Johnny in cp2077 is anti corpo to the fullest extent, even to the point of death, yet....they take his storyline from cp2020, which explicitly states that Johnny helps militech by blowing up arasaka tower, and pretty much use it as excuse to rewrite and flanderize Johnny into some edgy 14 year old whos dad refuses to let him play past 10pm. Where does he get his nukes?lol
@@notjimpickens7928 also Johnny was always anti corpo but participating in mandatory systems doesn't mean he can't criticize them he still has to eat and militech put food on his table
Some people just don't understand anger and alienation or what it means to be "punk" We live in convenient times where everyone has a platform. They have twitter, reddit, facebook, instagram and tiktok. It is easy to believe you are speaking out Johnny was made during the 80s/90s era. Speaking out didn't mean just making a post. Speaking out meant acting out. Rebelling Johnny Silverhand also was a product of this broken world. He felt he had to lash out and fuck the Corps because he believed it was the only way to fight back. Which is ironically the mindset the Corps want. Be vicious and ambitious, make us money till you can't.
at the 1 hour mark and 4 minutes, luke talks about iguanas and thinking its a bug that theyre not in night city. this is the one thing that is intentional. its a blade runner reference. in that movie, they talk about how rare and expensive it is to find a real iguana. meaning that the majority of animals went extinct and you only see replicants or androids of the animal. that iguana in cyberpunk is supposed to be a blade runnner easter egg
I appreciate a lot of the things he had to say in this review but he missed a TON of references like this and was kind of hindered by lack of knowledge of the Cyberpunk genre as a whole. Again I didn’t have a problem with everything he had to say overall just my critique of the critique lol.
@@donniecampbell1665 yeah also some stuff relating to the cyberpunk 2020 lore. Like, Arasaka is nothing like Tesla, unless Tesla is conducting proxy corporate wars wars and housing private militaries. I think it made sense that Johnny was hell-bent on taking down Arasaka, seemed like he was the lesser of two evils.
@@Joel-ik3sz and also the fact that he was kinda bothered by the Corpo life path intro, like, we’ve seen night city, it’s pretty obvious that assassination attempts between employees at arasaka and other corporations is something that happens on a daily basis, plus they weren’t gonna kill V cuz like Jackie said, those guys were not in their territory, and it’s not out of the question for them to not bother after that cuz what’s the point? Shit like this happens on a daily basis.
Also, he could pay attention to Goro talking during that stakeout. Where you see that only cat in whole city and V and Goro talking about animals being gone.
Hell I didn’t know about Iguana reference. But even then it’s later explained during your conversation with Takemura that most animals in night city are extinct. With Cats being one of the last survivor
It is an rpg just not a very well constructed one. A little better now but the way they designed it it leaves a lot to be desired. 1) Too many perks are just passive bonuses, only a handful actually change how you play. Many more are pointless, poorly thought out and a few don't work (many more used to not work) not much reason to go multiple playthroughs with the way it is now. 2) the weapons system is similar to witcher 3 in terms of level matters a lot, so you'll get an iconic and 1hr later a common butter knife does more damage. Constantly switching for higher damage stats since damage is all that matters. The attachments are poorly implemented. Wtf is range good for. Many stats don't really matter. 3) clothing has very little impact besides armour and personal preference. Mod slots and the balance of mods is poorly done. They is no reason for a mod that increase breathing underwater. So long as armour is the most important stat and armour is tied intrinsically to clothing this will be a problem, having a set of clothing does no bonuses. 4) a lot of missed opportunities with argumentation, not just cosmetic but functions, balancing and cost. The best augs are the leg augs that fundamentally change how you play and make the combat way more fun that it shouldn't cost as much honestly. They should've had ranges to it like many of the other mods. 5) food and drinks are pretty pointless, at least in witcher you couldn't spam potions but here I can spam Insta heals while there is no real benefits to food. Why can't they grant +1 or 2 to one of the 5 main skill or sub trees? Not just stamina regen etc. Food is completely pointless. 6) crafting and upgrading is poorly balanced. Ammo is never a problem the system as a whole lacks depth. 7) there are choices but they are either too few, or lack real impact. The most impactful choices in this game pale in comparison to witcher, I can accept that we are a small cog on the machine but the future of clouds or having a different leader of the maelstrom gang really ddint feel or seem that impactful. Your origins also have too little impact, offering only flavor but no real change to outcomes or rewards.
Check out Steam and their RPG category lol i was looking for some game to play i never heard of... like 90% of games listed there i wouldn't even think had any elements of RPG at all. I guess its not that theyre all wrong, its just that we're dinosaurs who still use 90s definition while they changed completely with time
I still hear people to this day blame the hardware. If COD Black Ops can be played on a Wii and The Witcher 3 can be played on a Switch, you can't blame the hardware. It's incompetence, which CDPR have admitted it is.
@@MrSoopSA it's more about how it performed poorly on console and thus they decided to blame the hardware and consumers. Yeah how dare I expect a game to run on the hardware I bought it for Though your point shows the idea that even if performance isn't the problem, there's more issues than that
Honestly I don't understand at all the intensity of your hang-up on the Johnny - V genderbender body swap. I suppose it might be weirder if you as an individual feel your sexual identity as a fundamental aspect of your consciousness, but idk man, you've just played an entire game dedicated to the ontological reality of a ghost in the shell, thematically it isn't out of place, and it's only superficially different than the father - son bodyswap that you made no remark on.
I expected gear to be more like deus ex: all clothes would be cosmetic, guns would be used based on the uses you found them and not some annoying borderlands weapon BS.
There should have been a deliberate choice between clothes and armor so that each would give you either style points or armor points, both usable in their own interactions (style in conversations through the actual COOL stat - and the other TTRPG version social stats) and armor in combat. It's even written in the original RPG rulebook that sometimes style means more than practicality, going guns blazing into a firefight looking fly with minimal armor, just because you'd rather want to look cool than wear protective, lame-looking gear.
Game is nothing like borderlands and you can't even use the special fire modes of certain guns unless you have a specific cyber ware installed.Did you actually play the game or just assume based on videos you've watched or seen.
All we wanted was one of these: -Fallout with this scale -Larger scale Deus Ex -Witcher 3 in a future city with guns -GTA 5 with RPG dialog choices -Decent visuals but it runs
I personally felt I got 90% of that and even playing on PS5 (crashes every 2 hours) I felt it belong to my top 25. My expectations for the game was "Bethesda RPGs", so you could say I didnt overhype the game like most people and to be honest IMO I definitely got a game that's better than most Bethesda RPGs with the exception of New Vegas but even compared to NV it does some stuff better.
@@Ocean5ix even Bethesda RPGs have more impactful choices than Cyberpunk 2077. Fallout 4 atleast gives you 4 diverging paths for an ending and makes you commit to it. Cyberpunk just hands all of them to you for complete ing everything.
It is really similar to Witcher 3 and that’s the problem . They should have made a different game , that engages you with dialogue and choice . The best part about the cyberpunk it’s is city and lore but they solely focused on gameplay which is secondary to such a game .
@@controversialgaming1364 -The ai is way worse -Combat is way worse - leveling is way worse -performance is way worse -city doesn't feel alive -ai have no simulated life -AA is way worse For me it is a night and day difference between the two games.
Actually, Yorinobu has a Iguana in his suite, and you can even take an egg from there back to V's apartment which will eventually hatch. Freeing Brick is important since you can cash in on it later on in the quest that you go to the maelstrom club
I remember when this was coming out I said to myself "easily gonna be game of the year, but I bet you there will be that one dude who makes a really long 5 hour video about how the games bad , just to hate".....and now months later the game disappoints me and collects dust while I watch said 5 hour video and agree with it :(
@@AscendanceMedia A shill gotta do what he has to do to pay rent. Game amazing and public perception positive = game good, masterpiece, game bad and perception is negative = game bad.
At the end of the heist, if you send Jackie's body home, you have a wake side-quest in which you get to loot his garage and get his bike as a vehicle. If you send him to Vic, Arasaka gets him and uploads him to their network. There is a small impact to the game with either decision.
Its a huge unique and detailed world that just sets itself as a backdrop to some loot and shoot type of game. The story is cool but feels out of the game play and vice versa
Rockstar still holds that soft spot in my heart. In hindsight their game hypes were rarely met with great disappointment. I wish I could say that about another studio
For me it was Rockstar and CDPR I thought I could always count on to make quality games that deserve the hype, but apparently it’s always Rockstar. They really hold a special place in my heart as I still play RDR2 and being in awe and impressed even after I spent 100 days counting down the release back in 2018.
Glad i didnt buy this. Witcher 3 is not that great for me, liked the world/story/lore/quests but everything else feels meh and feel more as action adventure more than RPG. When CDPR announce CP2077 to be a heavy RPG, i was interested but not hyped. Always go for reviews before buying a game, especially AAA games. Larian studio is my go to for RPG genre.
I had the guitar loop, but I also had a cyber psycho heavy breathing loop. Luckily, I never had to reset the game because the game regularly reset itself. So kind.
The "Johnny gives the kid a guitar" ending feels weird for me because what do you think it's gonna happen after that kid goes back home and his abusive father sees him with a really nice and expensive guitar? Yeah that would not end the way the game seems to think it would end.
Whilst I agree I think the idea behind that ending is the kind doesn't go home, follows his dreams and becomes a rockstar. But.. Well that's not how reality works.
@@Juwce_86 Yeah that's how I interpreted it as well, I didn't really have an issue with that ending. It's one of the better one's with the Panam one being the best imo.
@@Jimoshi1 In an actual GAME with a realistic world yeah. The gangers in this game just stand in the same spot and do nothing unless you get super close to them.
Personally, my main contributor for hype were people like Yong, SkillUp or Alanah Pierce who were behind closed doors and played the game cumulatively for pretty much a full day months before the release date. ALL of them have said that the city is incredible, NPCs convincing and generally praising the game to high heavens declaring it deserved all the hype in the world. I REALLY want to know what they played because watching back all of their videos it just sounds like they were straight up lying. They lost all of my respect and trust after that. Especially people who gave this game 9s and 10s when emarbos lifted. So incredibly hypocritical of them to make fun of sites like IGN or Gamespot only to pull the same shit. And the worst part is, they got no flak whatsoever. Nobody is questioning them at all. They hyped up a broken product, got lots of views off that and then when the public reception shifted they jumped the bandwagon again. If any one of those people who were mentioned is reading this, sincerely, fuck you.
SkillUp shilling the game surprised me, especially when you consider how much of a dump he took on the Last of us Part II ( which I agreed with) I don't understand the need to defend this game just because its CDPR, they outright lied about the condition of the game when it “went gold”
Well they didn't have access to the console version before the embargo was lifted and I don't recall Yong or ShillUp giving it unreasonably high praises. Most people who played it on a high end pc were quite happy afaik.
@@HejLala the game is ass no matter what it’s played on. It just runs better on pc but the cut content, awful ai and broken mechanics are still alive and well
1:49:10 It actually does come up again as you later realized (which is evidenced by 3:38:40). Sending his body to Vik actually makes sense in terms of decency. V did not want Mama Welles to see Jackie all messed up (look-what-they-did-to-my-boy style). Being conscientious about that is used by the game designers against you, though, as the body gets intercepted by Arasaka.
Funniest part for me was when after taking blockers on 1st meeting with Johnny, I took some side quest when Johnny was acting like a best friend. Even Vi asked "Hey Johnny are you seeing this?" This was so freaking odd because literally 2 minutes ago he was trying to kill Vi xDDD
Yea went through the same. I guess you had to do the next main missions first until you work things out with Johnny some more before you actually earn that kind of banter between them. For some reason the devs didn’t do anything to block out any of those banters before you do more main missions, and that made it like we missed some things which we did
Love how in the scene in the diner with Takemura, the waitress behind Takemura stands there taking notes for “an order” when the guy at that booth is sitting there constantly drinking his coffee.....nice immersion lol.
@@Teuwufel yeah bc basic things like animations and questing aren't completely broken ljke they are in cyberpunk,,and skyrims world actually feels alive. Cyberpunk is hauntingly lonely feeling.
The thing is, gamers as a whole will not learn anything from this; they never have. Publishers will have yet another confirmation that gamers never learn their lesson. And everyone will do the same thing over and over, worse and worse each time. That's how we got where we are today, and that's how we'll get wherever we end up 10 years from now, when we'll all be pining for the good old days of 2020.
Your not wrong. Thing is, the whole fifa, madden, and NBA 2k have been doing this for a while now and the only people who don't seem to learn a damn thing is, the same people who buy it annually. They will bitch and moan, but once a year they forget about it and they repeat it all over again.
I think the problem is that gamers ask too much of every studio. For me, there are only 3 or 4 studios capable of producing AAA excellent games one after the other. Then you have the exclusives. Then you have the studios like CDProject, with a fanbase that thinks they are an AAA studio, while the only masterpiece they released was the 3rd iteration of The Witcher. Cyberpunk was doomed from the start
The Arasaka ending is actually relatively good as long as Goro lives. He's a bro and even though the other corpos might have written you off there's still a chance for him to pull out out of the fire later down the line.
I really, really, REALLY hate this ending. To me it's the writers saying "Fuck you, you picked wrong. We beat you over the head with the correct choice and you didn't follow it so now you get this depressing ending." This might have been acceptable if you screwed over Arasaka, so obviously they wouldn't save you. Say, however, you did everything right, picked the correct options, sucked Arasaka's dick every chance you got. You were the perfect corporate lackey. What if in that scenario Arasaka threw every resource available to solving your problem and you were cured. Now you become their number 1 fixer. Their new corporate hitman. Adam Smasher 2.0. How much better would that have been? Instead, no matter what you pick you are still fucked.
yea that was the first big "huh" moment for me. when it was confirmed with no flinch that this "insanely customizable rpg adventure" didnt have a third person option
True, animations are horrible when you look at your shadow, now imagine them in 3rd person. It'd be a pure joke. Plus via mods you can take a look at your functional model and it's disproportional af.
Look at all this vharictor customization you can't see. Also you can't customize colors on clothes and vehicle's even though games in freaken ps2 era allowed you to do that.
Pretty much. It takes alot of time, money and effort to get games/character models moving smoothly and looking good in first person and third person. There's only a handful of games that do it successfully as well.
I could never pinpoint why I unsubbed from Yong until recently. The dood only has two setting, either discourse about obviously negative things, or praise for obvious positive things, all padded out to 10+ minutes. It's just him droning on and on about nothing for forever with maybe 3 minutes of actual content presented
Yong yea is always on top of any hype wave then the moment the general public thinks a thing sucks he's leading the hate bandwagon with the none offensive "I'm not mad, I'm disappointed" and "there's a good game buried here" lines
He's a snake oil salesman,his job is mostly to shill you for the next overhyped games and excuse garbage gaming journalist of obvious paid reviews and cover ups.
In my humble useless internet opinion, there was never a chance that CDPR would make the game live out to the expectations they themselves had set. Period. They got too carried away, they should have played safe, handled fans expectations much better, worked with realistic ETAs when the pandemic hit. I feel like no matter the shape or form this game would have came, there would have been a huge hate wagon because of the massive hype, a monster that CDPR itself created. I bought this game recently in a sale and lemme say an unpopular thing: I had decent 65h fun. But it was bittersweet fun because when you truly give the game a chance, you understand it could have been amazing had CDPR been honest to itself and specially with us fans. Spot on analysis.
I love cdpr because of their witcher franchise. I still don't understand why they would create so much hype and advertise it on E3 when it was unfinished...
Though i loved my first playthrough despite playing 100 hrs on a base console, i wouldnt have minded waiting another 3 or 4 months for a more polished release
That's because they're chasing trivial armor stat increases that don't mean squat gameplay wise. Just a learned habit of RPG players. In Act I, once one gets $14k (2 maybe 3 side jobs (pay+loot+access point hacks), or scrapping the inventory of a couple dozen beverage dispensers), one can get cyberware that adds 200 armor, dwarfing anything low level clothing can offer. Looking like a hobo is entirely optional. And once one gets the Armadillo blueprint later in the game, the only characteristic of clothing with any gameplay import is the number of mod slots. One can just go shopping a lot, or craft, or pick up static legendary sets through exploration, and its actually pretty easy chasing armore to overlevel for the game. I walked around firefights like Robert Duvall in "Apocalypse Now" with 3000 armor, and evidently about 6000 armor is possible.
The character creator highly encouraged the "17 year old rebellious teen with access to a plastic surgeon" look. I remember creating my character and thinking "Yeah, this if fine for now. I'll fine tune it later". FeelsBadMan.
Not mine, I never found it necessary to stress over armour points once you get the legendary subdermal armour. Just focused on making my female v look as sexy as possible lol
@@whoiscuriousgeorge Are you serious? Each of the individual Lord of the Rings films are amongst the greatest films ever made. The entire trilogy combined is a contender for the greatest cinematic achievement in history.
Same. Had to watch enough Let's Plays and reviews to understand the controversy. It was only when I went on to play The Witcher 3 that I realized just how bad Cyberpunk was. What a dip in quality!
@@Frank-kq4te False. You can easily make an educated criticism of the graphics, story, voice-acting, animations, and to an extent even the gameplay of Cyberpunk itself without playing it. Look, we're NOT sorry we weren't in the trenches of Night City with you guys. Actually experiencing the shitty Fallout 4 style game-play doesn't change a fella's opinion on how much of an objective mess the game is.
Thanks for calling out media and youtubers who inaccurately reported on the state of the game before launch. RUclipsrs I thought I could trust have lost some credibility.
See, I realized early on that there wasn’t a death timer and did all the side quests and finished Johnny’s quest line and the way Johnny acts towards you at the end makes a whole lot more sense and feels genuine.
I did 90% of the side stuff roughly at the same time, before the point of no return. It should be noted that only precious few of them are actually worth it: Kerry Eurodyne, River Ward, Panam, Judy, that convict preacher, the monk, to some extent Delamain... but most of the rest is just the same stuff over and over, either cyberpsychos with Regina or just sneaking into a building and pressing F. Very tedious and not nearly meriting bothering with. And all you ever learn from them is backstories of some randoms (and most of it in plain text to boot), nothing that would further your understanding of the lore.
Having gotten the Panem ending of the game when I played, I ended up enjoying the story and being very satisfied with my journey. Granted I’m also the guy who put 90+ hours in the game and did literally everything I could before finishing the story so that plays a factor for sure. I feel like its like that “Telltale Games Effect” though where everything you do feels important until you go back and try something else only to ruin the illusion.
That's me. Romanced panam got the Sun ending. Did all the side quests and gigs, (minus Kerry's questline and ncpd hustles) and I almost don't want to see all the other endings right away.
got 100% achievements on very hard, and it's not any more difficult to be honest - you get more experience and street cred, leveling you REALLY fast after the first 2-3 hours of fighting bullet sponge enemies, it's more fun than playing on normal, but the headshot multiplier "bug" on bosses is a feature, I'm pretty sure. I did 140k+ Damage with my Overwatch, but ALWAYS damaged the main bosses for 5% of their health - Most likely it's just a cap, so crit focussed builds can't just oneshot lore-important enemies, for obvious reasons
Ya it's rediculous easy just get a revolver and spec out the pistol skill tree seriously you'll 1 hit kill any and everything just don't get hit by a car you will instantly fall through the map and drown to death
A bit late response, i know, but at least for melee there's no cap. I was able to damage smasher by 20% of his health with each hit of my mantis blades. If there's a cap, it has to only work for range weapons
The balance of this game is so shit that people were breaking it within a week of playing by just leveling up and spending points. They couldn't figure out anything interesting to do with the skill tree so they just added a bunch of game breaking damage multipliers. It's very lazy, and boring
That’s some revisionist history. When Fallout 4 launched it got all 9’s and 10’s and there were hella ppl mad that Witcher 3 got goty instead of it. Btw when Witcher 3 launched it was buggy af and there was controversy about it being downgraded It took months for any of the criticism against Fallout 4 to gain any traction online. This is why gamers keep making the same mistakes over and over. Nobody has a memory apparently
Most of people jumped on "Witcher 3" train after year or two. Hence why they dont even remember the state of the game at the beggining. One of the reason CDPR thought they could get away now is that they fixed most of Witcher stuff later after release. For example even Luke asked about changing appearance and stuff like that. That was added to Witcher 3 later, not on release. Problem is, hype was too big now. So, it was harder to hide mistakes now. Also, "Witcher 3" is actually a great game. Cyberpunk even with its strong sides like characters or story, isnt. Its mediocre at best. Also, part about Fallout 4 was true about gaming urinalists. Not so much about gamers, anybody who played it could tell you that game was lacking.
Everything about the main quest of FO4 is so so wrong. I have no hope for the series under Bethesda. I had friends who were loving it at the time but they'd never really played a Fallout game before it.
This is funny because most of my friends played fallout 4 not because they cared about fallout but because they heard it was made by the same people who did Skyrim. So, in a way, it was the same thing as it is now with CDPR. Fans of one game that was fun thought the next one would be just as good and then it turned out to be boring (to me that's the worst part. Cyberpunk is boring with so many repetitive quests that don't branch out nor have noticeable consequences). How many more broken games before we say "enough"?
this game is proof as to why the developers need the primary decision on when the game is ready for launch. I understand that the business side is meant to make money and hype up marketing. But releasing a half baked project leads to a very depressing result
What got me the most enjoyment out of this game was the fact that I just happened first time around to do the select side quests that I felt contributed to V and Johnny’s story, so I actually really enjoy the narrative and found myself really moved by V and Johnny’s convo at the end. However, after watching this, I can see just how some players didn’t like the narrative because half the endings suck and if you don’t wind up by chance doing to right amount of content, a lot of the story beats don’t make sense. No matter what you do though, this game is not an RPG. CyberPunk, from a structural standpoint, was just doomed to fail by not knowing what it wanted to be.
I feel like a lot of the side jobs should be part of the main story. For example, helping Judy free/condemn Clouds, or finding Johnny's car, or the SAMURAI gig, or helping the Aldecaldos... There's so much that should have taken place at a certain spot in the plot but was instead a missable side quest. Would've developed the characters better.
I think it depends the angle you aproach it from. I will bring the state of VTMB when it launched and fixed by modders afterwards. Yes we can argue indefinitely about how that game has better writing and this and that. At the end of the day, video games, movies, music, media in general is subjective. In my honest opinion, in the 20+ years of gaming, I came to the conclusion that reviews and scores hurt games more than rushed releases or bugs.
@@reredrumuoydefinitely an RPG. Just a shit one. In terms of being an open world action adventure game like Far Cry, its an 8/10 due to the build variety it offers. As an RPG with choices and unique consequences, its a 2/10.
Remove all of the glitches and make it the smoothest running game ever released and it will still be a shallow on-rails game with a non immersive world and experience
It would need a revamped standalone edition imo. Something kinda like Episodes from Liberty City or Spider-Man Miles Morales. Even then they would need to introduce so much additional in-game mini content/loot if CDPR expects their Online version to make any real money.
It’s crazy how much this game was hyped up for years and talked about like it’d be the biggest game changer but now that its been out for a few months no ones really talking about it anymore and the hype and excitement is gone. People still talk about Witcher 3 as the best rpg ever and that came out years ago.
Witcher 3 is a great game and I love it a lot for what it is but I never understood the "best RPG" label to be honest. I feel like there are far more in-depth RPG experiences out there.
Thats because you understand what an rpg actually is. The Witcher 3 is an action game with choice and consequences and some light RPG elements. You dont roleplay, you control Geralt who is a faithful adaptation of his novel persona. Youre just allowed to make many in character and some very out of character decisions for him. Anyone who claims The Witcher 3 is the greatest RPG ever is an idiot and should be forced to play through Fallout 1, 2 and New Vegas or Baldurs Gate 1 and 2 or other such titles vastly more deserving of "Greatest RPG". Calling The Witcher 3 the greatest RPG ever is like calling Call of Duty the greatest RTS ever. Or to be more generous The Witcher 3 cannot be the greatest RPG ever because otherwise it would have to best RDR2 or Zelda Breath of the Wild for that title.
@@jmlaw8888 Totally, I see Witcher 3 more akin to a very well written interactive movie with a lot of charming characters and some interesting choices similar to Telltale games and I think it's a great experience when you view it that way but in terms of RPG mechanics there's just not a lot there.
Yeah, corporate greed lol. People were literally behaving like rabid dogs telling them to release it as fast as possible. Devs are humans too, it's not their fault but the higher-ups.
I don’t think so, the game is broken on a fundamental level, they could have polished it but the demands the studio had for the game since before it even entered production were the ones that doomed the game, not to mention the story problems and lack of consequences for your actions would still be there
almost a decade of this game in the works yet they needed another year? Yeah, no, that's ridiculous. No matter how much time they would be given they would have released it in the same state or simply not at all
@@Teuwufel which they had no problem regulating and ignoring even at the very beginning. On top of them being such a small minority that you wouldn't even see it under their tweets. Stop shifting blame where it doesn't belong
In closing, you say certain endings don't make sense yet also admit you rushed through the main plot while ignoring heavy prompts and hints throughout the game that would give clarity to certain actions.
One thing I never understood was that you’re this badass cyborg mercenary and out of ALLLL the animations they could have used for healing they chose to make the character use an inhaler...
ngl as someone with asthma i found it hilarious and pretty fun ahaha it reminded me of running an unimpressive distance and pausing like “one second guys let me just get my inhaler”, i thought it was because of V dying until i picked up an airhypo and was just like “oh the medicine is all just lame in this”
53:00 speaking of side quests, could you imagine if there was a street cred requirement for the heist, and during ACT 1 you and Jackie were doing all the watson missions together, really would have made Jackie's fate hit home.
Good but how it would match Dexter DeShawn's personality. I mean he literally likes to bet on people. If you dont understand what I mean then listen what Evelyn thinks about Dex.
@@normaaliihminen722 To be fair, if you're robbing Arasaka, you're always betting. Moreover, Dex makes you get the Spider-Bot, and V even says it's to get the measure of them.
I think Jackie was killed to show the cost of crossing Arasaka. If u look at it you’ll see every single person involved in the heist was assassinated, including V. The only reason he survived to begin with was because of the biochip
50:00 I never had any trouble getting incredibly immersed into the Witcher 3 or the Mass Effect trilogy, despite the 3rd person camera. Strange choice to make it 1st person.
I’m more immersed in third person. Your character is immersed into and part of the world instead of just looking in at the world from a super static angle.
The now leaked early builds and footage show that it resembled Mass Effect quite a lot, but in a positive way. It was a bad call to do it in first person, it doesn’t add anything special.
Honestly this immersed me more. Being in a car in a back alley and getting the call for another job with rain hitting the windshield and slow jazz playing took it to another level. I got immersed heavily in the witcher 3 but I’m not sure hit cyberpunk levels Most of the time. Maybe blood and wine did but thats because having incentive to return to base and rest/reflect always ups immersion for any game. Cyberpunk somehow dropped that lesson hard.
@@ThatBlakeCampbell 1st person is not why this game failed. Metro Exodus is one of the most immersive games ever made. ruclips.net/video/8geGHbWIMXA/видео.html
I think rewriting the story adding keanue reeves couple years ago was one of the biggest mistakes they made. After all they had 8 years to write a story and 2 years before release they decide to rewrite and redo it but the payoff was disastrous. I found Panam 100x more relatable, likable and better acting than Johnny. Johnny was the worse character for me in the game. I wish they never added keanue and went with an actual voice actor.
People can hate on this game forever and it was still the most engaging single player experience I have played in years. I would argue that the game is actually on par with skyrim. Story is good, build complexity is good, combat flow is awesome, setting is great, played for more than 30 hours. Anyone complaining is either trying to play a next gen game on a last gen console(that always goes well by the way lol) or expects too much for a 60$ entry fee. Before you say GTA does it all better, yes it does but that engine has been being improved for generations now. If the franchise doesn't get cancelled by the naysayers I'm sure future installments will be everything people hoped for.
That would be one way to kick off the Jackie DLC. We all deserved more Jackie in the game, CDPR can still deliver on that by giving us either a prequel DLC that covers the period of time between the Prologue and the game proper or by expanding on the Jackie Engram Theory.
Idk if anyone else did this, but if you call Jackie after his passing, you can actually let V give a voice message of events you did in the story so far. It’s a nice touch.
I love this review, but did find it amusing that your favorite part (the shootout chase with the motorcycles) that you said was "polished" does not actually require you to shoot the enemies. They will crash and die without your help. Same for any of the chases. Also note, you, yourself can not shoot from a motorcycle, while those enemies could.
@@RoadtoArkham Didn't know such a bug existed. My first death was in the first chase sequence so called bullshit. People just want to hate this game at this stage.
@@craigstarbird6915 Outside of the glitches and technical aspects of the game people expected too much and set themselves up for disappointment. People were expecting Forza levels of driving, Doom levels of shooting mechanics and dark souls level melee combat while being the deepest RPG imaginable with city interaction as layered and varied as GTA.
This game genuinely broke my heart, I supported CDPR because both the Witcher 2 and 3 had become so personal for me that it kept me busy when I was in a serious state of depression. I met Doug Cockle and he autographed my game and a statue of his and apparently I'm the first person he ever did that for. I put several hundred hours into these games several times. I even changed my PSN gamer tag to CDProjektBlue and made a custom blue logo for my account and got an Igni and Aard tattoo. I was a major fan boy for them so to see how little love and care they gave this game they had hyped for years since I was little was enough to make me not trust any other games they publish unless they decide to finally fix their game. Cringe I know but still the company and their Witcher franchise helped me through a lot so I saw them as a company who could do no wrong 😤
1:49:06 not sure if anyone mentioned this but if you send Jackie to his mother you get given a nice funeral quest later on where V says goodbye to Jackie and gets his motorbike
If you say that you'll be back for Jackie, delamin sends the body to his family, as it is a exclusive service for the "exelsior pack". If you send the body to Viktor Arasaka steals the body to turn Jackie into a AI for interrogation
“Most people will probably quit before they can buy a 45000 dollar body mod” Modding back in the console: Please allow me to introduce myself, I’m a man of wealth and taste
Once there were significant updates to the game and it was actually playable, I really enjoyed it. But it’s unfortunate that it was unplayable in the first place.
Pffft Fallout 4... I admit that i dislike so much Bethesda Game Studios, for what they have done to the Fallout franchise and TES series, and how the "RPG" aspect of their games got worse each time... when i heard that Cyberpunk 2077 had less RPG elements i knew CD Projekt Red fucked it up big time. I don't know man, it was a good year but it wasn't that amazing.
MGSV is bad and it's incomplete. Fallout 4 is overhyped mediocrity. it's a massive downgrade. Obsidian with 18 months of development made a way better game = New Vegas.
@@TheGrizNation nope, and being unfinished with missing content made it even worse. sometimes the majority isn't always right. MGSV is one of those times.
True, still haven't finished it and I actually enjoy it, but it feels like a giant missed opportunity, and it sucks me in much less than TW3 did - I literally played whole-nighters of that one cause I couldn't put it down. Sad, because it has massive potential: the story was cool, combat is nice enough (especially sniping feels awesome) and some of the characters were too. It mostly feels a bit empty in the end. So much stuff to see, but not too much to do. Just for one silly thing in comparison: it's supposed to be this apocalyptic mix of LA and Las Vegas, and it literally has less prostitutes (you can interact with) in the whole city than Crippled Kate's had in TW3. I wanted casino's to spend my money in. I wanted to be able to buy penthouses and the likes. I wanted to be able to play the stupid little roach game in the fist bar. I wanted to have wild braindances like the guys in those clubs. I wanted to drive one of those flying cars. I wanted this world to feel lived in more than anything else. If they actually had gotten all the time they needed to finish it, it could have been truly superb. Now it's just good, but not great.
@@Johnnythefirst completely agree. maybe my fault for wishful thinking, but outside o the amazing story, I expected GTA-like world depth and quality of life but in a scifi environment.
@@AltairStealth I never played GTA5 (I'll start after i finish Cyberpunk), but GTA suffered a bit of the same problems. 95% of the buildings in GTA4 could not be entered. Ok, it's a much older game of course...
@@ElectrusBoom I only first played it in 2019, because I was a rabid TES fan and it felt like cheating ( :p ). But my got, four months well spent. The DLC is as good or maybe better than the main game as well...
I'm so glad I tempered my expectations for Cyberpunk 2077. I wasnt disappointed at all, and I tried so hard to warn people to check themselves, but only one person heeded my warnings.
The choice where to send Jackie's body is actually important. It determines whether you get access to Jackie's Ofreda or an encounter with Jackie's Engram during the endings.
Pretty sure that doesn’t matter because Jackie’s body gets picked up by Arasaka regardless of your choice. I told Delamain to wait. Later he tells me that he delivered the body to his family. And Jackie’s mother tells me she never got the body.
@@frenchfriedbagel7035 nope only if sent to doc, if his family has it they give him a send off. No engrams of Jackie at the end. Takemura doesn't mention arasaka taking his body.
I feel that if you put your linear action game in an open rpg world, that world needs be believable. The more I played Cyberpunk, the more I realised that the sandbox aspect of the game was a very, very shallow illusion. People have rightly criticised Skyrim for being a wide shallo sandbox, but compared to Cyberpunk, it's as deep as an ocean...I've played pokemon games with more world interactions than cyberpunk. what I truly miss is the ability to actually engage with things in the world outside of missions... To visit a cafe, check into a hotel, go to a club.. make enemies or friends with certain groups ect.. In cyberpunk You can go to these places, but you can't interact with them.. the world doesn't aknowledge them as real places.. they're merely surface level set dressing for the exact same brain dead Npc's you'll find everywhere else... In Cyberpunk, everything outside of the missions is just that, w set dressing that falls apart at the slightest scrutiny... The more you play, the less the world seems real.
The world of cyberpunk could have worked if it did it in the vein of like deus ex. Large sandbox areas that you can go to instead of just a massive open world. This way the quests can be written in a way that is a lot more focused.
2:31:20 You can see Oda again in at least one other occasion (as you realized by 3:39:15) when you are working with Hanako (just an extra gun on your side, not that you need it because you alone can toast all the enemies with ease). But I think Oda only shows up if you went back to save Takemura.
I quit the game after 10 hours. You can talk all day about the bugs and glitches, but what killed it for me is that they quietly changed the game from an RPG to Action/Adventure.
what killed it for me was teh char customization, or give me a fully written char like geralt i can customize a bit, or Kratos form the last GoW(you change his armor, axe and blades) or a blank fully customizable character like fo4 or skyrim, it baffles me that Crusader kings 3, a fucking stratgy game has a better deeper character creator system than this, if you are sick, your lord will luck sick, if you have the beautiful trait, the lord will look gorgeous, if you were wounde din battle your lord will look wonded for sometime, and your sons/daugtehrs will look like you and your spouse, WTF is an strategy game, that kind of stuff is not needed but is there, and in game where it was actually neede (in night city, style is everything remember that quote), all main characters i saw look the same, the cloths are stupid (you cant look good if you want to survive as the ugliest rags tend to come with higher number rating that pristine designer cloths wtf) and you cant change your char after that, and you can only see it in mirrors... which sometimes fail due to bugs, fuck this game, they killed the last piece of hope i had in games
There's that little game called my time at Portia,if you're officially date someone and then go on a date with someone else,you might get caught if they see you cheating,you'll get called out. I love when indie developers put multibillion corporations to shame.
@@muhammadfaizmohdnasiruddin9854 Only the Golden Version of P4. Nothing happens in the original. Also it’s less of they break up with you, but rather you are forced to tell them to their face that you like someone else better. Which is like, way worse.
Wow it's crazy to think of now that the hype is gone... ... that i completely forgot about CP2077 for a good 2 months, easily the most frustrating gaming experiences of my life. Hype dies very fast. I remember thinking of this game every single day for years
Cyberpunk had sooooo much potential tho. Had it on PS5 and the only problem I had was the crashes. Never finished it but def willing to give it another try when the next gen patch comes out
I legit feel sorry for the hyped fans who bought Cyberpunk merch, like the jackets, t-shirts, the custom gaming chair, the custom 2080Ti graphics card, the custom Xbox One X, etc, only for the game to be a complete disaster, now they're left with the constant reminder of it
The fact Jackie already knows you and you’re already best buds right at the start of the corpo life path doesn’t make any sense at all. The street kid lifepath where you’re at his moms bar in Heywood and somehow for whatever baffling reason you and Jackie have never met. I guess they tried to justify this plothole with you returning from Atlanta but still you would think V and Jackie would be lifelong bffs cause they’re both street kids. It’s really weird how they handled that.
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@@LukeStephensTV By any chance are you going to make a critique for AC Valhalla ?
Well said in Act 1. Hats off to you
Nice to see someone call out yong yea lol. He’s always making videos criticizing the integrity of people/businesses so it’s pretty funny stuff
Really stretching to hit that 10 minute mark, huh?
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@@maverickay5807 Stop defending that fool! Double standards, eh? What a hypocrite.
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I’m convinced that this game needed 2 more years ... minimum
So were the developers.
@@frenchfriedbagel7035 That's the saddest part about this. From what I understand, it was the stockholders who rushed this game out so they could get their money. The people I feel the worst for are the devs. Imagine working on a game for somewhere around seven years, all to have it released too early and be one of the biggest disappointments in quite a long time. I'm glad I prematurely killed all of the hype for this game myself when I saw it was delayed multiple times in one year. I saw this as them not having a good or finished product, so I lost most interest in the game and treated it like EA was putting it out. As of right now, I have 140 hours on PC and I love to hop on and do my thing for a few hours whenever I have the time. That doesn't mean I think what they did was okay, pure disappointment. But I'm so glad I lowered my expectations low enough to be able to enjoy the game.
Im convinced no amount of time would have made this game live up to the hype. You could have given them 20 years and it still would have failed because the entire execution was flawed and CDPR simply werent good enough to execute it even if it wasnt. This company isnt rockstar. They havent been on top of the indusry for 2 decades. They made one masterpiece in 2015 and then deluded fanbois lost the plot and knighted them as gods gift to gaming.
Playing Cyberpunk I notice 2 things. 1st is brief moments of genuine quality that never get tied together to form a complete package. 2nd is an absolutely insane scattergun approach where they were grasping at everything they could without any thought as to whether they could accomplish it or not. The game clearly got ripped apart and stiched back up several times during development and the final time was a messy rush job to meet final deadline.
They were out their depth, over the top with ideas and out of time in the end. Cyberpunk was NEVER going to be a standout game. If they spend the next couple of years working hard on it and adding to it it at least can end up a half decent game. At least that way they can save some of their reputation and then try again with a more humble and down to earth project afterwards.
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@@jmlaw8888 can’t wait for rockstar to make a cyberpunk esque game
Maybe in a couple decades?
Who else has waited so long for this game to repair itself that you have literally forgot about it.. already..
Yup. And no one else seems to be be talking about it which makes me feel like I'm not even missing out. Even the people who "loved" it
I said this to a friend the other day. It's as if it never existed. Roll on Witcher 4.
@@themarcshark When I first started hearing about the bugs more than the game itself, I knew it was gonna be subpar.
I was refunded. Was so hyped. Waited late night until it unlocked to play on Xbox but all of that turned out in disappointment
@@dizzyupthefool5180 gonna be a looooong time before that happens lol. Assuming CDPR execs learned from this
CD Project Red giving us Cyberpunk 2077 reminds me of the little boy who really wanted a puppy, and his grandma promised him she would gift him a puppy for his birthday. Then his birthday came and when the little boy opened his gift his grandma had actually hand-knitted him a sweater with a PICTURE of a dog on it. So he began to cry, and then she cried, and nobody was happy and everyone remembered it forever. The End.
What a depressing story, just like what this game did.
But they can still go out and buy a puppy together. The issue and drama can be fixed easily in this example but not in the case of Cyberpunk. It was a real tragedy cause no one cannot fix it and damage has done.
@@deaclavilis6760 Jesus. Jokes dude, ya heard of em?
@@Largentina. You know better than I do.
@@deaclavilis6760 Yes, I know. You honestly thought this was meant to be taken seriously?
Seriously wasted potential with Jackie. You’ve got Jackie, a character who dreams of making it big like the legends of yesteryear, you’ve got Johnny Silverhand, *the* legend of yesteryear. And you, the single line of communication between these 2 characters, they really missed out on this dynamic.
Damn never though about it that way. Makes me even more disappointed they killed off Jackie
the worst one was aving that girl the one who gets you the chip job should been able to save her and have sex with her that peed me off
@@djdarksidejungle559 are you on about evelyn? why would a woman who has just been raped and tortured and humiliated for however long want to have sex with you for saving her? why would you want that?
@@Astaphxios its a story and they fucked it up
@@Astaphxios u think she was the corpo love story had jude the street kid had thingy bob the nomad story evelyn was the corpo love story just they cut that bit out
Luke Stephens to CD Project Red:" You don't get to rush this"
All gamers to CDPR: 😡🏌️♂️🩸💀
Actually...for the first time...I would allow Abby to use a fuckin Golf club...but at CDPR😂😂😂
😂😂😭
I want to see Abby in Smash
It's funny how this game got the "masterpiece" tag on Steam before it even came out lol
Cyberpunk 2077 is so far from a "masterpiece" it's hilarious
They actually delete critic statements posted by people on Steam.
@@SeriousDragonify Devs can delete reviews on Steam? That's screwed up.
@@VeeTHis i think they just tagg them as slurs or hate speach or something
@@VeeTHis Yeah. My friend bought game on discount on Steam, gave criticism and negative review and 2 hours later got deleted.
He said things like world isnt fully explorable and quests are bleak but also gave positivity about Jackie and that after his early death game story became awful with Johnny and virus chip that decreased Vs lifespan to a week.
Detailed reviews like this are underrated as fuck because there's just no way to do a big game like this justice in 30 minutes. You need to go in depth for these points to have weight and I'm very glad to see you do it. I will gladly share with my gamer friends.
I mean they most definitely aren't underrated when they get millions if views.
Also idk what reviewers you're watching but the best reviewers can easily make a detailed piece on a game in 30 minutes (or even less!)
Certainly, 5 hours allows for more opinions than 30 minutes does but as a wise man once said "if I had more time, I would've written a shorter letter".
@@reio1951 I think it should take as long as it needs. I've seen videos that were 8-10 hours long and they were fantastic and made excellent points with plenty of evidence and detail. Shorter videos tend not to allow that, and i've seen people resort to simply saying things like "It's great" without any kind of backing evidence.
@@theincrediblefella7984 i never implied that shorter videos are always better. I enjoy long reviews all the same, I just pointed out that the OP was wrong in saying it is impossible to do games justice in 30 minutes, that's quite a long time in and of itself actually.
@@theincrediblefella7984 man's really watching 8-10 hour youtube videos. sad.
@@sheevinopalpatino4782 go watch whitelight's death stranding review its great
Releasing a game that doesn't live up to the hype in it's story and execution is one thing; but to release a game that doesn't even function and broken to the point beyond fixing at realistic time window, is a whole new low altogether.
Gotta say - I had 70+ crashes from 2 playthroughs. That was roughly 1 an hour - on the PS5, as well.
That's just *awful*.
@Nie wiem Kurde beyond fixing in a reasonable time window. It'll take a long ass time to get the game not only working on a base level, but working well. Years to bring us the vision they promised. If they are even going to try. They already made the money.
Facts
It's not that broken. We need to stop this narrative. The problems with the game are OVERWHELMINGLY related to lack of emergent gameplay, shitty-linear-as-shit campaign, TERRRRRRIBLE NPCs, broken cops, no real gravity of choice, etc.
The bugs is what plebs complain about tbh. I encountered more bugs in Skyrim and it still got over 1000 hours out of me. The bugs aren't rhe problem.
@Nie wiem Kurde no its still a mess and probably will be for months and months
Not to mention the young lady from Gamespot who gave it a 6/10 before release caused an uproar. People claimed that she reviewed it without even playing the game. She was the only one to give it that low of a score and she was the closest to being right. Amazing
The probelm with her review is that she stated that she couldn't be bothered playing parts of the game. The score given was not the issue, it was the comments she made about how she came to that score that was the issue.
Yeah to be fair from what she said, it’s clear she didn’t actually play through the game we got. She basically did a speed run
@@aidanr1061 have you PLAYED the game? I don’t blame her, the main quest line and 85% of side missions are so fucking bad that one can’t be bothered to play the actual good stuff, the good side missions
@@romulofigueroadiaz480 yea I have and totally agree with you. But if your job is to review a game then you should be completing all the content to give your review credibility.
@@aidanr1061 I watched the full review. She mostly spot on. The part that gives the impression that she didn't play the game was cherry picked to make her look bad when she complained about the cop side missions, which were totally boring and pointless as she pointed out.
I clicked on this and thought "Jeez theres's no way someone watches all 5 hours of this" and then I thought "You know what I'm gonna watch all 5 hours of this"
As if your brain told you „u gonna waste these five hours anyway so why not with this?“ amirite? :D
I was playing another game and all the sudden I though that I´ve passed about 4 videos... no, I had still 4 hours to go
If this was on a talk rant about a game like crysis remastered version yes i could watch a 5 hour But give this guy credit he done really well and how dedicated to this game and how he feels about it and done his research and finding excellent it must of took so much time for him to do this and done a professional job
Once you watch one of Joseph Anderson's long asf videos, any video that length doesn't seem intimidating anymore lol
Ha ha ha same ..exactly the same
I personally don’t have a problem with Jackie being killed … I just have a problem with how quickly in game time it happens. I don’t really like how they yadiyadad like 6 months - give me 3 missions, some down time. Some more emotional beats … then when the death happens it’s even more impactful
When I saw the montage of me and Jackie doing missions together, getting our come up, getting my first car, my first apartment, I was so angry!
I was supposed to do those things with Jackie, what the hell game!
@@HolyReality891 totally man!
Also, Jackie could have just been healthy until reaching the taxi (having slotted in the biochip). Then we could have just had Adam Smasher shoot the shit out of Jackie while both of us were running towards Delamain. This would have cemented Adam Smasher as an actual villain, instead of a dude that just "shows up". Now Jackie got injured while falling from a roof, but then still manages to run after me while I'm looting every corner for 30 minutes, and then suddenly bleeds out in the back of a car?
I completely agree with this, but therefore find it even more incredible that even in so little time they got us so attached to Jackie, the man, the myth, the legend.
For reference, I've started 3 playthroughs (one for each lifepath), and Jackie's Offrenda got me crying 3/3 times
Defo agreed.
That montage we have with Jackie doing gigs should've been entirely playable and is Act 1 of the entire game.
Just a string of gigs where we earn money to buy rent our Megabuilding apartment and our crap Archer Hella, meet all the fixers in the game, and most importantly spend time and bond with best choombata Jackie Welles before shit hits the fan in Act 2 with the Konpeki Plaza heist.
That said. This can only be possible if they focused on making the game a action adventure game with a _linear story_ like Far Cry or GTA.
*Not as an RPG that lets you pick choices and enjoy & suffer the consequences.*
If they focused on making this game an RPG, then they need to get rid of the major and broad strokes of the main quest. Jackie dying *is an option.* And V is not our player character, but a completely custom one who we have near complete control over.
All i know is i wanted a full fledged rpg, not an action adventure shooter with half baked rpg elements.
The funny thing is that it was marketed as an rpg at first but when the game released then they changed it to action shooter lol
Half-baked RPG... Sounds like Witcher 3 to me.
@@AnimusVolare The witcher 3 is not exclusively an RPG but adopts some of the popular mechanics of an rpg like branching quest lines and consequences that come attached to how you interact with the world and how you approach various stories. For example the whispering hillock questline. The witcher 3 is able to meld action adventure mechanics with rpg mechanics in such a way that it is deeply fun and rewarding, that is what makes it such a good game, and such an immersive game
@@waterdragonsage8460 A game left untouched by the devs since 2018, leaving annoying quest glitches that have existed since launch, or even introducing new bugs like messing up the journal entries which is extremely immersion breaking. Honestly, this game constantly breaks my immersion. For example, when Priscilla gets attacked by a vampire she ends up in the hospital. She will literally be bed-ridden FOREVER because there is no passage of time in this game. Another example is the Novigrad Bathhouse. Once that gets destroyed it will remained closed forever even though that makes zero sense. This game constantly breaks immersion and this is honestly the tip of the iceberg. I still like the game for what it was but it doesn't deserve a 10/10. Poor design IMO
@@AnimusVolare Who said the game deserves a perfect 10? Maybe a 9/10 but definitely not a perfect 10. I can't think of any game on the market that is deserving of a perfect score. And yes the witcher 3 even to this day is full of bugs. Cdpr is clearly not a completely competent company, especially when it comes to play testing and bug fixing their games. They tend to create their games with a start, middle and end mindset. Meaning they don't think much about what's in-between. That is why we need to use this opportunity with cyberpunk 2077 to hold them to a much, much higher standard, and if they don't deliver well...Their reputation will sink their company for good.
Nothing makes me happier than watching a 5 hour video on a game I haven’t played and have no intentions of playing
Yikes.
fr after i saw crowbats vid on this game ik imakeep my money in my pocket lol
@@lyriclyric9814 The story is pretty good aswell as the side quests along with the music. Other than that the game is utter garbage. Should just skip this one out
@@L_Lawliet1907 bro youare literally complementing the main part of the game just to have the same outcome lol and naw im boo off the game its like a reskinned borderlands
@@lyriclyric9814 ok? I was just saying if you were interested in the story and music? Gameplay only covers a part of the game
"Truly wasted potential" is what my boss just said to me after not doing work for 5 hours
no one is the boss of you. its a cringe word that everyone seems ok with. yo bitch ass supervisor is the culprit lol
@@SobeCrunkMonster damn ur so cool
@@SobeCrunkMonster You just outed yourself as never having had a job bucko
The colors being warped at one of the endings is actually something that's in the game for everyone. The doctor actually describes how that is because the chip that was removed caused some damage to neural cortex or something like that.
It seems the glitch you had was the fact that it never faded away as it was suppose to.
The saddest part about this debacle is that gamers won't learn. They'll be pissed off for a while and swear to never trust a publisher again. But then another big game will get hyped, millions will preorder it because it's a "trustworthy company" and get angry again. Every publisher and developer seems perfect until they screw up. Don't buy a game you know nothing about.
I'm not part of the problem, i never pre order anything
The bigger problem is when the developer hypes it themselves. Sony Santa Monica Studio is quiet about the next God of War. Naughty Dog (despite TLOUII's divisiveness still has a level of care and attention that is nearly unmatched), Rockstar, and Rocksteady let their games speak for themselves.
But CDPR is a master of marketing and rode the hype train themselves.
Gamers learn just fine it’s the fact that hundreds of thousands of new potential gamers are spawned each and every day, kids turn 18, jocks learn what call of duty is, mean girls find Animal Crossing. Gamers like you & I have been doing this thing for a while but don’t underestimate how popular the medium has become and all the new gamers who have yet to learn!!
GTA VI maybe?
Ooo it’ll happen again with Gta 6 but rockstar knows they can’t drop a broken game
The game was hyped up to oblivion as the "be-all-end-all" game to rule all other games and now nobody even remembers it after just a few months.
Because a lot of use just want to move on. It’s basically been the same experience as if a significant other cheated on you. We just and to forget and move on.
@@frenchfriedbagel7035 I hope people actually learn from this. But I doubt it.
@@giorgialadashvili4771 people wont learn
Skyrim (if you include both the special edition, and og) has over twice the current average player base that cyberpunk has.
I wasn’t on the hype train. My expectations were a working game. Those weren’t even met.
I had a bad feeling about all the hype. Had 0 expectations and they still managed to dissapoint
honestly bro
Yeah I never bought into the hype.. thank god... but I was so excited and obsessed w thenlast of us universe. And naughty dog hurt me. But ATLEAST there is still SO MUCH I LOVE about last of us 2. It had incredible gameplay and graphics. Story had some flaws and had some amazing things. Some filler. Disrespectful of Joel. But the violence, the gameplay. Man time has helped but theres still pain. But man Intel bad for the people who were singled for cyberpunk. That's a whole nother thing. It was unfinished, broken,etc.. but even if it was finished and not buggy it would still be bad because it's not what was promised. This game was a LIE. The bugs and unfinished was the nails in the coffin
I remember reading comments like "oh time to preorder", or "I normally don't preorder, but I'm going to make an exception for CDPR" and being like oh I hope this doesn't blow up.
@@Obyvvatel that was me, but I pre-ordered 2 days before official release and I was able to get a refund
So you do bring up a lot of good points and I agree with most of what you're saying, but honestly the biggest diverging opinion I have from what you've said is on Keeanus performance.
I've been into Cyberpunk as a tabletop and a setting since I was very young, and Keanu's performance of Johnny Silverhand is spot on with how Johnny was portrayed in Cyberpunk lore. Johnny even as a young rockstar is called jaded, flat, angry and spiteful. I think Keanu really did do a good job, I honestly believe that an energetic Johnny Silverhand would have been out of character.
Other than that I agree with you.
I played a lot of the tabletop game with my friends, and Johnny is a hypocrite, compared to how he is in cp2020.
Johnny in cp2077 is anti corpo to the fullest extent, even to the point of death, yet....they take his storyline from cp2020, which explicitly states that Johnny helps militech by blowing up arasaka tower, and pretty much use it as excuse to rewrite and flanderize Johnny into some edgy 14 year old whos dad refuses to let him play past 10pm.
Where does he get his nukes?lol
@@notjimpickens7928 most terrorists are hypocrites who tout lofty ideals and make deals with devils the same as or similar too the ones they fight
@@notjimpickens7928 also Johnny was always anti corpo but participating in mandatory systems doesn't mean he can't criticize them he still has to eat and militech put food on his table
@@notjimpickens7928 i thought militech gave johnny the nukes and let him blow up arasake tower because it fit in line with what they wanted?
Some people just don't understand anger and alienation or what it means to be "punk"
We live in convenient times where everyone has a platform. They have twitter, reddit, facebook, instagram and tiktok. It is easy to believe you are speaking out
Johnny was made during the 80s/90s era. Speaking out didn't mean just making a post. Speaking out meant acting out. Rebelling
Johnny Silverhand also was a product of this broken world. He felt he had to lash out and fuck the Corps because he believed it was the only way to fight back.
Which is ironically the mindset the Corps want. Be vicious and ambitious, make us money till you can't.
at the 1 hour mark and 4 minutes, luke talks about iguanas and thinking its a bug that theyre not in night city. this is the one thing that is intentional. its a blade runner reference. in that movie, they talk about how rare and expensive it is to find a real iguana. meaning that the majority of animals went extinct and you only see replicants or androids of the animal. that iguana in cyberpunk is supposed to be a blade runnner easter egg
I appreciate a lot of the things he had to say in this review but he missed a TON of references like this and was kind of hindered by lack of knowledge of the Cyberpunk genre as a whole. Again I didn’t have a problem with everything he had to say overall just my critique of the critique lol.
@@donniecampbell1665 yeah also some stuff relating to the cyberpunk 2020 lore. Like, Arasaka is nothing like Tesla, unless Tesla is conducting proxy corporate wars wars and housing private militaries. I think it made sense that Johnny was hell-bent on taking down Arasaka, seemed like he was the lesser of two evils.
@@Joel-ik3sz and also the fact that he was kinda bothered by the Corpo life path intro, like, we’ve seen night city, it’s pretty obvious that assassination attempts between employees at arasaka and other corporations is something that happens on a daily basis, plus they weren’t gonna kill V cuz like Jackie said, those guys were not in their territory, and it’s not out of the question for them to not bother after that cuz what’s the point? Shit like this happens on a daily basis.
Also, he could pay attention to Goro talking during that stakeout. Where you see that only cat in whole city and V and Goro talking about animals being gone.
Hell I didn’t know about Iguana reference. But even then it’s later explained during your conversation with Takemura that most animals in night city are extinct. With Cats being one of the last survivor
"Redefine the open world adventure genre". did everyone just forget that this was supposed to be an rpg?
one inspired from board game. did he mention this in any of his cyber videos? i missed
It is an rpg just not a very well constructed one. A little better now but the way they designed it it leaves a lot to be desired.
1) Too many perks are just passive bonuses, only a handful actually change how you play. Many more are pointless, poorly thought out and a few don't work (many more used to not work) not much reason to go multiple playthroughs with the way it is now.
2) the weapons system is similar to witcher 3 in terms of level matters a lot, so you'll get an iconic and 1hr later a common butter knife does more damage. Constantly switching for higher damage stats since damage is all that matters. The attachments are poorly implemented. Wtf is range good for. Many stats don't really matter.
3) clothing has very little impact besides armour and personal preference. Mod slots and the balance of mods is poorly done. They is no reason for a mod that increase breathing underwater. So long as armour is the most important stat and armour is tied intrinsically to clothing this will be a problem, having a set of clothing does no bonuses.
4) a lot of missed opportunities with argumentation, not just cosmetic but functions, balancing and cost. The best augs are the leg augs that fundamentally change how you play and make the combat way more fun that it shouldn't cost as much honestly. They should've had ranges to it like many of the other mods.
5) food and drinks are pretty pointless, at least in witcher you couldn't spam potions but here I can spam Insta heals while there is no real benefits to food. Why can't they grant +1 or 2 to one of the 5 main skill or sub trees? Not just stamina regen etc. Food is completely pointless.
6) crafting and upgrading is poorly balanced. Ammo is never a problem the system as a whole lacks depth.
7) there are choices but they are either too few, or lack real impact. The most impactful choices in this game pale in comparison to witcher, I can accept that we are a small cog on the machine but the future of clouds or having a different leader of the maelstrom gang really ddint feel or seem that impactful. Your origins also have too little impact, offering only flavor but no real change to outcomes or rewards.
RPG has lost its meaning these days.
@@joeandrew8752 you forgot about their promise of vertical gameplay
Check out Steam and their RPG category lol i was looking for some game to play i never heard of... like 90% of games listed there i wouldn't even think had any elements of RPG at all. I guess its not that theyre all wrong, its just that we're dinosaurs who still use 90s definition while they changed completely with time
I still hear people to this day blame the hardware.
If COD Black Ops can be played on a Wii and The Witcher 3 can be played on a Switch, you can't blame the hardware. It's incompetence, which CDPR have admitted it is.
It’s not as if a better graphics card is going to fix the sheer amount of bugs of the lackluster writing and story.
@@MrSoopSA it's more about how it performed poorly on console and thus they decided to blame the hardware and consumers. Yeah how dare I expect a game to run on the hardware I bought it for
Though your point shows the idea that even if performance isn't the problem, there's more issues than that
Its sad when Activision does something better than you.
Yeah exactly, there's these idiots blaming consoles and their players. As if it's PS4's and Xbox One's fault that the game is so broken.
i despise the people who keep defending this
Honestly I don't understand at all the intensity of your hang-up on the Johnny - V genderbender body swap. I suppose it might be weirder if you as an individual feel your sexual identity as a fundamental aspect of your consciousness, but idk man, you've just played an entire game dedicated to the ontological reality of a ghost in the shell, thematically it isn't out of place, and it's only superficially different than the father - son bodyswap that you made no remark on.
I expected gear to be more like deus ex: all clothes would be cosmetic, guns would be used based on the uses you found them and not some annoying borderlands weapon BS.
Big Deus-Ex fan myself and i hear you i was expecting the same.
There should have been a deliberate choice between clothes and armor so that each would give you either style points or armor points, both usable in their own interactions (style in conversations through the actual COOL stat - and the other TTRPG version social stats) and armor in combat. It's even written in the original RPG rulebook that sometimes style means more than practicality, going guns blazing into a firefight looking fly with minimal armor, just because you'd rather want to look cool than wear protective, lame-looking gear.
Amen to this! I hate the gear system with a capital H.
exactly. If i want to play borderlands i buy borderlands. (Never played any borderlands game)
Game is nothing like borderlands and you can't even use the special fire modes of certain guns unless you have a specific cyber ware installed.Did you actually play the game or just assume based on videos you've watched or seen.
"There's just no justice. This experience has changed me. It's made me more cynical, more bitter, more jaded." -George Costanza
All we wanted was one of these:
-Fallout with this scale
-Larger scale Deus Ex
-Witcher 3 in a future city with guns
-GTA 5 with RPG dialog choices
-Decent visuals but it runs
I personally felt I got 90% of that and even playing on PS5 (crashes every 2 hours) I felt it belong to my top 25.
My expectations for the game was "Bethesda RPGs", so you could say I didnt overhype the game like most people and to be honest IMO I definitely got a game that's better than most Bethesda RPGs with the exception of New Vegas but even compared to NV it does some stuff better.
and we got a game that tries to do all of these at once while horribly failing at it...
@@Ocean5ix even Bethesda RPGs have more impactful choices than Cyberpunk 2077.
Fallout 4 atleast gives you 4 diverging paths for an ending and makes you commit to it. Cyberpunk just hands all of them to you for complete ing everything.
It is really similar to Witcher 3 and that’s the problem . They should have made a different game , that engages you with dialogue and choice . The best part about the cyberpunk it’s is city and lore but they solely focused on gameplay which is secondary to such a game .
@@controversialgaming1364
-The ai is way worse
-Combat is way worse
- leveling is way worse
-performance is way worse
-city doesn't feel alive
-ai have no simulated life
-AA is way worse
For me it is a night and day difference between the two games.
Actually, Yorinobu has a Iguana in his suite, and you can even take an egg from there back to V's apartment which will eventually hatch.
Freeing Brick is important since you can cash in on it later on in the quest that you go to the maelstrom club
They added that in a patch that came out way after this video was posted.
I remember when this was coming out I said to myself "easily gonna be game of the year, but I bet you there will be that one dude who makes a really long 5 hour video about how the games bad , just to hate".....and now months later the game disappoints me and collects dust while I watch said 5 hour video and agree with it :(
LMAO same :(
Fucking fan boy
Honey I'll be back in 5 hours, Luke Stephens just posted
Is that your boyfriend, honey?
Best secret affair.
8:45 “We’re talking about gaming journalists,if you can call them that”*Shows YongYea* lmaoooooo
I’ll see you guysss next time
Yong was hyping for years and then, after the release, cashing out on the misery CD Projekt was in. (By making a lot of video's about the drama)
@@AscendanceMedia A shill gotta do what he has to do to pay rent. Game amazing and public perception positive = game good, masterpiece, game bad and perception is negative = game bad.
It's basically Far Cry but in the future.
At the end of the heist, if you send Jackie's body home, you have a wake side-quest in which you get to loot his garage and get his bike as a vehicle. If you send him to Vic, Arasaka gets him and uploads him to their network. There is a small impact to the game with either decision.
It's sad that the final product feels like an empty husk of what could've been.
Its a huge unique and detailed world that just sets itself as a backdrop to some loot and shoot type of game. The story is cool but feels out of the game play and vice versa
@@stagger9660 yeah hearing the amazing musical score in the background of this vid saddens me because it reminds me of how this game could’ve been
The non existent AI killed the game for me and I considered myself a huge CDPR fan. I learned never to get hyped for anything ever again.
Rockstar still holds that soft spot in my heart.
In hindsight their game hypes were rarely met with great disappointment. I wish I could say that about another studio
Respawn entertainment hasn't disappointed yet!!
For me it was Rockstar and CDPR I thought I could always count on to make quality games that deserve the hype, but apparently it’s always Rockstar. They really hold a special place in my heart as I still play RDR2 and being in awe and impressed even after I spent 100 days counting down the release back in 2018.
Glad i didnt buy this. Witcher 3 is not that great for me, liked the world/story/lore/quests but everything else feels meh and feel more as action adventure more than RPG. When CDPR announce CP2077 to be a heavy RPG, i was interested but not hyped. Always go for reviews before buying a game, especially AAA games. Larian studio is my go to for RPG genre.
@@Doubleaa500 True but they are a Subsidiary of Satan so just give them time look at Bioware.
I had the guitar loop, but I also had a cyber psycho heavy breathing loop. Luckily, I never had to reset the game because the game regularly reset itself. So kind.
Two negatives make a positive *thinking black guy meme*
Ah! Yesterday I had to reboot the game because after about an hour when I realized that the strange "breath" was out of place.
I had the guitar loop too and it was infuriating
Well, this didn't age well.
Just like another guy in the comments said: It needed 2 more years of development
The "Johnny gives the kid a guitar" ending feels weird for me because what do you think it's gonna happen after that kid goes back home and his abusive father sees him with a really nice and expensive guitar? Yeah that would not end the way the game seems to think it would end.
Whilst I agree I think the idea behind that ending is the kind doesn't go home, follows his dreams and becomes a rockstar. But.. Well that's not how reality works.
@@Juwce_86 Yeah that's how I interpreted it as well, I didn't really have an issue with that ending. It's one of the better one's with the Panam one being the best imo.
Lol this comment was just a repeat of Noah Caldwell's criticism
Lol you think he fucking survive coming home with it? He will probably be killed by some gangers in next corner and sold for organs.
@@Jimoshi1 In an actual GAME with a realistic world yeah. The gangers in this game just stand in the same spot and do nothing unless you get super close to them.
I got 4 hours 55 minutes and 10 seconds before my final exam, I know where to spend that time now.
hmm awfully specific *inser think emoji*
Good way to save 60 bucks
@@maxbarkdull875 you're right, but I fell in the trap and pre-ordered it, but it was still a great experience IMO
Dude.... you totally missed the Easter egg in the last second bro 😎
Watch Snydercut
Personally, my main contributor for hype were people like Yong, SkillUp or Alanah Pierce who were behind closed doors and played the game cumulatively for pretty much a full day months before the release date. ALL of them have said that the city is incredible, NPCs convincing and generally praising the game to high heavens declaring it deserved all the hype in the world. I REALLY want to know what they played because watching back all of their videos it just sounds like they were straight up lying. They lost all of my respect and trust after that. Especially people who gave this game 9s and 10s when emarbos lifted. So incredibly hypocritical of them to make fun of sites like IGN or Gamespot only to pull the same shit. And the worst part is, they got no flak whatsoever. Nobody is questioning them at all. They hyped up a broken product, got lots of views off that and then when the public reception shifted they jumped the bandwagon again. If any one of those people who were mentioned is reading this, sincerely, fuck you.
SkillUp shilling the game surprised me, especially when you consider how much of a dump he took on the Last of us Part II ( which I agreed with) I don't understand the need to defend this game just because its CDPR, they outright lied about the condition of the game when it “went gold”
@@blitzofwar5435 he’s just another pretentious youtube “journalist” who shills for CDPR so people think he’s an intellectual
Well they didn't have access to the console version before the embargo was lifted and I don't recall Yong or ShillUp giving it unreasonably high praises. Most people who played it on a high end pc were quite happy afaik.
@@HejLala the game is ass no matter what it’s played on. It just runs better on pc but the cut content, awful ai and broken mechanics are still alive and well
@@jamesgratz4771 oh well, glad I didn't buy into the hype then
1:49:10 It actually does come up again as you later realized (which is evidenced by 3:38:40). Sending his body to Vik actually makes sense in terms of decency. V did not want Mama Welles to see Jackie all messed up (look-what-they-did-to-my-boy style). Being conscientious about that is used by the game designers against you, though, as the body gets intercepted by Arasaka.
Funniest part for me was when after taking blockers on 1st meeting with Johnny, I took some side quest when Johnny was acting like a best friend. Even Vi asked "Hey Johnny are you seeing this?" This was so freaking odd because literally 2 minutes ago he was trying to kill Vi xDDD
Yea went through the same. I guess you had to do the next main missions first until you work things out with Johnny some more before you actually earn that kind of banter between them. For some reason the devs didn’t do anything to block out any of those banters before you do more main missions, and that made it like we missed some things which we did
There's no "I" in V. It's just the letter V
They expected you to walk to the diner before picking up your car because right after it Johnny changes his mind.
Love how in the scene in the diner with Takemura, the waitress behind Takemura stands there taking notes for “an order” when the guy at that booth is sitting there constantly drinking his coffee.....nice immersion lol.
There is also an often bug, where at the end of dialogue a dude spawns out of thin air. Then he slides to the exit whilst T posing
There's tons of bugs. The game sucks.
Taking orders from dude who eats the biggest burger ever that never gets smaller, so what else this psycho wants to order? For five minutes.
@@tabernaclejones6115 Skyrim has tons of bugs too and people don't complain as much.
@@Teuwufel yeah bc basic things like animations and questing aren't completely broken ljke they are in cyberpunk,,and skyrims world actually feels alive. Cyberpunk is hauntingly lonely feeling.
The thing is, gamers as a whole will not learn anything from this; they never have. Publishers will have yet another confirmation that gamers never learn their lesson. And everyone will do the same thing over and over, worse and worse each time. That's how we got where we are today, and that's how we'll get wherever we end up 10 years from now, when we'll all be pining for the good old days of 2020.
Lmao, just don't only play AAA and you're fine - Indie scene/AA is getting better and better
Your not wrong. Thing is, the whole fifa, madden, and NBA 2k have been doing this for a while now and the only people who don't seem to learn a damn thing is, the same people who buy it annually. They will bitch and moan, but once a year they forget about it and they repeat it all over again.
@@ALL_that_ENDS seriously tho, who likes games about sports you can actually play in real life? Lol
@@Salieri01 That's wrong in many ways... COD is cool but why play it if you can enlist in the army and live the real thing? Dumbass
I think the problem is that gamers ask too much of every studio. For me, there are only 3 or 4 studios capable of producing AAA excellent games one after the other. Then you have the exclusives. Then you have the studios like CDProject, with a fanbase that thinks they are an AAA studio, while the only masterpiece they released was the 3rd iteration of The Witcher. Cyberpunk was doomed from the start
The Arasaka ending is actually relatively good as long as Goro lives.
He's a bro and even though the other corpos might have written you off there's still a chance for him to pull out out of the fire later down the line.
He is cool, too bad that he is too loyal worst half of Arasaka dynasty, however without Goro (I think) V would never get new body.
V dies so Goro will live
I really, really, REALLY hate this ending. To me it's the writers saying "Fuck you, you picked wrong. We beat you over the head with the correct choice and you didn't follow it so now you get this depressing ending." This might have been acceptable if you screwed over Arasaka, so obviously they wouldn't save you. Say, however, you did everything right, picked the correct options, sucked Arasaka's dick every chance you got. You were the perfect corporate lackey. What if in that scenario Arasaka threw every resource available to solving your problem and you were cured. Now you become their number 1 fixer. Their new corporate hitman. Adam Smasher 2.0. How much better would that have been? Instead, no matter what you pick you are still fucked.
The bugs initially distracted the players from the fact it's a mediocre game.
And yet casuals be like: "The game is great. I don't know what you're talking about." Sigh.
Exactly. Besides all the glitches, the game itself is kind of boring and is so easy to get OP without even trying.
@@MarkaNgamer let ppl like what they like nerd
Nothing is cutting edge.
Driving, mediocre, shooting and weapons, mediocre, rpg elements, disappointing.
@@nicholaslargent1449 It's easy to get op in most games I'm just saying
I think that third person was removed purely because they couldn’t make it look good at all
yea that was the first big "huh" moment for me. when it was confirmed with no flinch that this "insanely customizable rpg adventure" didnt have a third person option
Witcher has good 3rd person view so that cant be the point. They removed it because 3rd person view takes much money, effort and time
True, animations are horrible when you look at your shadow, now imagine them in 3rd person. It'd be a pure joke. Plus via mods you can take a look at your functional model and it's disproportional af.
Look at all this vharictor customization you can't see. Also you can't customize colors on clothes and vehicle's even though games in freaken ps2 era allowed you to do that.
Pretty much. It takes alot of time, money and effort to get games/character models moving smoothly and looking good in first person and third person. There's only a handful of games that do it successfully as well.
Love how many times you showed young yea on screen when talking about reviewers riding the wave lol 😂
I could never pinpoint why I unsubbed from Yong until recently. The dood only has two setting, either discourse about obviously negative things, or praise for obvious positive things, all padded out to 10+ minutes. It's just him droning on and on about nothing for forever with maybe 3 minutes of actual content presented
I wheezed my ass off when he put the cp2077 figurine in the box 😅😅
He's also very cringe, yooooooooooong out
Yong yea is always on top of any hype wave then the moment the general public thinks a thing sucks he's leading the hate bandwagon with the none offensive "I'm not mad, I'm disappointed" and "there's a good game buried here" lines
He's a snake oil salesman,his job is mostly to shill you for the next overhyped games and excuse garbage gaming journalist of obvious paid reviews and cover ups.
In my humble useless internet opinion, there was never a chance that CDPR would make the game live out to the expectations they themselves had set. Period. They got too carried away, they should have played safe, handled fans expectations much better, worked with realistic ETAs when the pandemic hit. I feel like no matter the shape or form this game would have came, there would have been a huge hate wagon because of the massive hype, a monster that CDPR itself created.
I bought this game recently in a sale and lemme say an unpopular thing: I had decent 65h fun. But it was bittersweet fun because when you truly give the game a chance, you understand it could have been amazing had CDPR been honest to itself and specially with us fans. Spot on analysis.
I love cdpr because of their witcher franchise. I still don't understand why they would create so much hype and advertise it on E3 when it was unfinished...
Though i loved my first playthrough despite playing 100 hrs on a base console, i wouldnt have minded waiting another 3 or 4 months for a more polished release
@@Esoteraeon money
I love how everyones V looks like they've just been spat out of a thrift shop tornado
Testament to how much we need a transmog feature.
That's because they're chasing trivial armor stat increases that don't mean squat gameplay wise. Just a learned habit of RPG players. In Act I, once one gets $14k (2 maybe 3 side jobs (pay+loot+access point hacks), or scrapping the inventory of a couple dozen beverage dispensers), one can get cyberware that adds 200 armor, dwarfing anything low level clothing can offer. Looking like a hobo is entirely optional.
And once one gets the Armadillo blueprint later in the game, the only characteristic of clothing with any gameplay import is the number of mod slots. One can just go shopping a lot, or craft, or pick up static legendary sets through exploration, and its actually pretty easy chasing armore to overlevel for the game. I walked around firefights like Robert Duvall in "Apocalypse Now" with 3000 armor, and evidently about 6000 armor is possible.
Cant look like shit if you dont give a damn about armor ratings my v looking like a biker from hotline miami
The character creator highly encouraged the "17 year old rebellious teen with access to a plastic surgeon" look. I remember creating my character and thinking "Yeah, this if fine for now. I'll fine tune it later". FeelsBadMan.
Not mine, I never found it necessary to stress over armour points once you get the legendary subdermal armour. Just focused on making my female v look as sexy as possible lol
There is The Lord of the rings trilogy extended version, and there is this ... *aggressively grabs a popcorn*
I never rated LOTR. I rated this though.
And here I thought Snyder’s Cut was the longest release this March!
@@whoiscuriousgeorge Are you serious? Each of the individual Lord of the Rings films are amongst the greatest films ever made. The entire trilogy combined is a contender for the greatest cinematic achievement in history.
hello, may i interest you in some Morrowind?
@@criert135 Yeah dude I'm entitled to my opinion not to like something, no need to react as if I've personally insulted you. 😂
With the amount of videos I've watched on this game, I've basically played it without playing it.
same, i did play it but damn what a boring game it was for me
Dude same we saved $60
Same. Had to watch enough Let's Plays and reviews to understand the controversy. It was only when I went on to play The Witcher 3 that I realized just how bad Cyberpunk was. What a dip in quality!
And yet your opinion about cyberpunk has no value because of that.
@@Frank-kq4te False. You can easily make an educated criticism of the graphics, story, voice-acting, animations, and to an extent even the gameplay of Cyberpunk itself without playing it.
Look, we're NOT sorry we weren't in the trenches of Night City with you guys. Actually experiencing the shitty Fallout 4 style game-play doesn't change a fella's opinion on how much of an objective mess the game is.
In a nutschell: "you can do either this or that. Doesn't really matter."
Thanks for calling out media and youtubers who inaccurately reported on the state of the game before launch. RUclipsrs I thought I could trust have lost some credibility.
Just say skillup, he can’t hurt you here
@@altec3600 Skillup's review was pretty spot on, what are you on about?
@@altec3600 show me on the doll where skillup touched you
@@altec3600 More like Skilldown in my book
@@altec3600 you mean shillup?
Take a shot everytime he says "Actually, it doesn't matter."
take a shot everytime he says "maybe it's just a bug"
I guess alcohol poisoning it is, but what else is there to do during the pandemic with your friends
See, I realized early on that there wasn’t a death timer and did all the side quests and finished Johnny’s quest line and the way Johnny acts towards you at the end makes a whole lot more sense and feels genuine.
I did 90% of the side stuff roughly at the same time, before the point of no return. It should be noted that only precious few of them are actually worth it: Kerry Eurodyne, River Ward, Panam, Judy, that convict preacher, the monk, to some extent Delamain... but most of the rest is just the same stuff over and over, either cyberpsychos with Regina or just sneaking into a building and pressing F. Very tedious and not nearly meriting bothering with. And all you ever learn from them is backstories of some randoms (and most of it in plain text to boot), nothing that would further your understanding of the lore.
Having gotten the Panem ending of the game when I played, I ended up enjoying the story and being very satisfied with my journey.
Granted I’m also the guy who put 90+ hours in the game and did literally everything I could before finishing the story so that plays a factor for sure.
I feel like its like that “Telltale Games Effect” though where everything you do feels important until you go back and try something else only to ruin the illusion.
Well spoken I feel like none of my choices even matter
That's me. Romanced panam got the Sun ending. Did all the side quests and gigs, (minus Kerry's questline and ncpd hustles) and I almost don't want to see all the other endings right away.
@@ThePhantomKingX the other endings that I’ve seen are all either sad or unsatisfying if I remember correctly lol
@@SwickedOne hmmmmm interesting. Might just let the game sit with me for a while before I go for the Platinum.
got 100% achievements on very hard, and it's not any more difficult to be honest - you get more experience and street cred, leveling you REALLY fast after the first 2-3 hours of fighting bullet sponge enemies, it's more fun than playing on normal, but the headshot multiplier "bug" on bosses is a feature, I'm pretty sure. I did 140k+ Damage with my Overwatch, but ALWAYS damaged the main bosses for 5% of their health - Most likely it's just a cap, so crit focussed builds can't just oneshot lore-important enemies, for obvious reasons
Damn, Enemies now have plot armor
Ya it's rediculous easy just get a revolver and spec out the pistol skill tree seriously you'll 1 hit kill any and everything just don't get hit by a car you will instantly fall through the map and drown to death
A bit late response, i know, but at least for melee there's no cap. I was able to damage smasher by 20% of his health with each hit of my mantis blades. If there's a cap, it has to only work for range weapons
@@adeven4775 yeah I used a katana and that fight went about the same. Melee is op.
The balance of this game is so shit that people were breaking it within a week of playing by just leveling up and spending points. They couldn't figure out anything interesting to do with the skill tree so they just added a bunch of game breaking damage multipliers. It's very lazy, and boring
I’ve never become a Patron for anything but The amount of effort you have poured into this is astounding... thank you.
In another timeline, this game was everything we wanted.
In another timeline covid hasn't happened as well
I wish I was in that one
@@guilhermehank4938 Covid its the best thing that has ever happend wdym
@@miguelmalvina5200 hopefully you are joking
@@guilhermehank4938 It was positive for me tbh, No s c h o o l
@@miguelmalvina5200 the thousands and thousands of people whove died from covid: 👉🏾😎👉🏾 youre welcome kid
This is wtf I’m talking about. A 5 hour review. I love it. Fuck the 20 min stuff.
That’s some revisionist history. When Fallout 4 launched it got all 9’s and 10’s and there were hella ppl mad that Witcher 3 got goty instead of it. Btw when Witcher 3 launched it was buggy af and there was controversy about it being downgraded
It took months for any of the criticism against Fallout 4 to gain any traction online. This is why gamers keep making the same mistakes over and over. Nobody has a memory apparently
Nothing but facts here.
Facts, I remember the rave reviews from everyone and playing the game and being...
Most of people jumped on "Witcher 3" train after year or two. Hence why they dont even remember the state of the game at the beggining. One of the reason CDPR thought they could get away now is that they fixed most of Witcher stuff later after release. For example even Luke asked about changing appearance and stuff like that. That was added to Witcher 3 later, not on release. Problem is, hype was too big now. So, it was harder to hide mistakes now. Also, "Witcher 3" is actually a great game. Cyberpunk even with its strong sides like characters or story, isnt. Its mediocre at best. Also, part about Fallout 4 was true about gaming urinalists. Not so much about gamers, anybody who played it could tell you that game was lacking.
Everything about the main quest of FO4 is so so wrong. I have no hope for the series under Bethesda. I had friends who were loving it at the time but they'd never really played a Fallout game before it.
This is funny because most of my friends played fallout 4 not because they cared about fallout but because they heard it was made by the same people who did Skyrim. So, in a way, it was the same thing as it is now with CDPR. Fans of one game that was fun thought the next one would be just as good and then it turned out to be boring (to me that's the worst part. Cyberpunk is boring with so many repetitive quests that don't branch out nor have noticeable consequences).
How many more broken games before we say "enough"?
this game is proof as to why the developers need the primary decision on when the game is ready for launch. I understand that the business side is meant to make money and hype up marketing. But releasing a half baked project leads to a very depressing result
The manager who decided on the April 2020 release date pretty much ruined both the game and the company.
YES
May to August 2021 and there should've been no bugs, with a few good features added back in.
@DFS57 the devs weren’t done with the game at all, if I remember correctly the devs were mad at the execs for telling everyone it was almost done
@@downwithputinsaveukraine1313 The game should have been released Holiday season of 2021 at the earliest, but 2022 was their best bet.
5 hours of glory, can’t bloody wait to watch this.
You gotta do it man
@@orangeporridge1553 I am watching it
@@orangeporridge1553 no offence mate but you’re a bit weird.
It's a garbage clickbait
@@orangeporridge1553 there you go again with another weird comment.
What got me the most enjoyment out of this game was the fact that I just happened first time around to do the select side quests that I felt contributed to V and Johnny’s story, so I actually really enjoy the narrative and found myself really moved by V and Johnny’s convo at the end. However, after watching this, I can see just how some players didn’t like the narrative because half the endings suck and if you don’t wind up by chance doing to right amount of content, a lot of the story beats don’t make sense. No matter what you do though, this game is not an RPG. CyberPunk, from a structural standpoint, was just doomed to fail by not knowing what it wanted to be.
I feel like a lot of the side jobs should be part of the main story. For example, helping Judy free/condemn Clouds, or finding Johnny's car, or the SAMURAI gig, or helping the Aldecaldos...
There's so much that should have taken place at a certain spot in the plot but was instead a missable side quest.
Would've developed the characters better.
Its definitely an RPG. Not as deep as other RPG's but its an RPG nonetheless.
I think it depends the angle you aproach it from. I will bring the state of VTMB when it launched and fixed by modders afterwards. Yes we can argue indefinitely about how that game has better writing and this and that. At the end of the day, video games, movies, music, media in general is subjective. In my honest opinion, in the 20+ years of gaming, I came to the conclusion that reviews and scores hurt games more than rushed releases or bugs.
@@reredrumuoydefinitely an RPG. Just a shit one.
In terms of being an open world action adventure game like Far Cry, its an 8/10 due to the build variety it offers.
As an RPG with choices and unique consequences, its a 2/10.
Remove all of the glitches and make it the smoothest running game ever released and it will still be a shallow on-rails game with a non immersive world and experience
It would need a revamped standalone edition imo. Something kinda like Episodes from Liberty City or Spider-Man Miles Morales. Even then they would need to introduce so much additional in-game mini content/loot if CDPR expects their Online version to make any real money.
I don't understand how the game is so barebones. Its impressively shitty.
It feels like a PS1 game released in 1997. Would've been successful back then
True.
I think they should just start anew with it, nothing about it is good
It’s crazy how much this game was hyped up for years and talked about like it’d be the biggest game changer but now that its been out for a few months no ones really talking about it anymore and the hype and excitement is gone. People still talk about Witcher 3 as the best rpg ever and that came out years ago.
Witcher 3 is a great game and I love it a lot for what it is but I never understood the "best RPG" label to be honest. I feel like there are far more in-depth RPG experiences out there.
It's a game changer, we will have less pre orders down the line.
Thats because you understand what an rpg actually is. The Witcher 3 is an action game with choice and consequences and some light RPG elements. You dont roleplay, you control Geralt who is a faithful adaptation of his novel persona. Youre just allowed to make many in character and some very out of character decisions for him.
Anyone who claims The Witcher 3 is the greatest RPG ever is an idiot and should be forced to play through Fallout 1, 2 and New Vegas or Baldurs Gate 1 and 2 or other such titles vastly more deserving of "Greatest RPG".
Calling The Witcher 3 the greatest RPG ever is like calling Call of Duty the greatest RTS ever.
Or to be more generous The Witcher 3 cannot be the greatest RPG ever because otherwise it would have to best RDR2 or Zelda Breath of the Wild for that title.
@oof In order to demonstrate what went wrong and how to avoid it in the future? Making videos on a topic has nothing to do with hype.
@@jmlaw8888 Totally, I see Witcher 3 more akin to a very well written interactive movie with a lot of charming characters and some interesting choices similar to Telltale games and I think it's a great experience when you view it that way but in terms of RPG mechanics there's just not a lot there.
If they waited 1 more year this game could've been THE game. But no, corporate greed once again dont give ashit bout anything
Yeah, corporate greed lol. People were literally behaving like rabid dogs telling them to release it as fast as possible. Devs are humans too, it's not their fault but the higher-ups.
I don’t think so, the game is broken on a fundamental level, they could have polished it but the demands the studio had for the game since before it even entered production were the ones that doomed the game, not to mention the story problems and lack of consequences for your actions would still be there
@@Teuwufel a minimal amount of people behaved like animals when it came to the game, they weren’t even a vocal minority, they were a quiet one.
almost a decade of this game in the works yet they needed another year? Yeah, no, that's ridiculous. No matter how much time they would be given they would have released it in the same state or simply not at all
@@Teuwufel which they had no problem regulating and ignoring even at the very beginning. On top of them being such a small minority that you wouldn't even see it under their tweets. Stop shifting blame where it doesn't belong
In closing, you say certain endings don't make sense yet also admit you rushed through the main plot while ignoring heavy prompts and hints throughout the game that would give clarity to certain actions.
One thing I never understood was that you’re this badass cyborg mercenary and out of ALLLL the animations they could have used for healing they chose to make the character use an inhaler...
That’s just reaching
The healing animations in Far Cry were actually good jajaja, a shame that Far Cry 5 got rid of that...
@@Red-ev8ls what’s reaching?
@@alfredoamendez4299 imagine the far cry blood dragon healing animations in cyberpunk
ngl as someone with asthma i found it hilarious and pretty fun ahaha it reminded me of running an unimpressive distance and pausing like “one second guys let me just get my inhaler”, i thought it was because of V dying until i picked up an airhypo and was just like “oh the medicine is all just lame in this”
Plot twist: the glitches are just Johnny Silverhand messing with you.
cyberjunk 1977
@@Concise_Parakeet cybertrash 2077
@@billwilliamson8780 you just showed how to ruin a pun, thanks
Sunken Cost Fallacy is more damaging to a player's brain than Johnny
@@billwilliamson8780 that's why Hosea always pick on you, Bill
53:00 speaking of side quests, could you imagine if there was a street cred requirement for the heist, and during ACT 1 you and Jackie were doing all the watson missions together, really would have made Jackie's fate hit home.
Good but how it would match Dexter DeShawn's personality. I mean he literally likes to bet on people. If you dont understand what I mean then listen what Evelyn thinks about Dex.
@@normaaliihminen722 To be fair, if you're robbing Arasaka, you're always betting. Moreover, Dex makes you get the Spider-Bot, and V even says it's to get the measure of them.
I think Jackie was killed to show the cost of crossing Arasaka. If u look at it you’ll see every single person involved in the heist was assassinated, including V. The only reason he survived to begin with was because of the biochip
50:00 I never had any trouble getting incredibly immersed into the Witcher 3 or the Mass Effect trilogy, despite the 3rd person camera. Strange choice to make it 1st person.
I’m more immersed in third person. Your character is immersed into and part of the world instead of just looking in at the world from a super static angle.
The now leaked early builds and footage show that it resembled Mass Effect quite a lot, but in a positive way. It was a bad call to do it in first person, it doesn’t add anything special.
I just question why they put a decent effort into the character customizer or cosmetics if 99% of the time you can't even see your character.
Honestly this immersed me more. Being in a car in a back alley and getting the call for another job with rain hitting the windshield and slow jazz playing took it to another level. I got immersed heavily in the witcher 3 but I’m not sure hit cyberpunk levels
Most of the time. Maybe blood and wine did but thats because having incentive to return to base and rest/reflect always ups immersion for any game. Cyberpunk somehow dropped that lesson hard.
@@ThatBlakeCampbell 1st person is not why this game failed. Metro Exodus is one of the most immersive games ever made. ruclips.net/video/8geGHbWIMXA/видео.html
The lack of cinematics wasn't for "immersion;" it was another symptom of the "game" being rushed garbage.
Exactly
Nah, its easier to make some cinematics, its more difficult to integrate the cutscene to the gameplay
@@lelandp17 but your "gameplay" has you both standing still 90% of the time. cutscene can have nuance and be great
I think rewriting the story adding keanue reeves couple years ago was one of the biggest mistakes they made. After all they had 8 years to write a story and 2 years before release they decide to rewrite and redo it but the payoff was disastrous. I found Panam 100x more relatable, likable and better acting than Johnny. Johnny was the worse character for me in the game. I wish they never added keanue and went with an actual voice actor.
@@The_Primary_Axiom same.
People can hate on this game forever and it was still the most engaging single player experience I have played in years. I would argue that the game is actually on par with skyrim. Story is good, build complexity is good, combat flow is awesome, setting is great, played for more than 30 hours. Anyone complaining is either trying to play a next gen game on a last gen console(that always goes well by the way lol) or expects too much for a 60$ entry fee.
Before you say GTA does it all better, yes it does but that engine has been being improved for generations now. If the franchise doesn't get cancelled by the naysayers I'm sure future installments will be everything people hoped for.
I’m pretty sure Arasaka copies Jackie’s engram and you can meet a broken copy of our beloved Jackie depending on where you send him
Yeah that shit sucked hurt my heart quite a bit
Yup depending on your decision on where you send the body , you either get a funeral or see Jackie's broken engram at Arasaka.
Yep we also meet the head of arrasaka as an engram explaining his plan to take over his sons body and thus be effectively immortal.
That would be one way to kick off the Jackie DLC. We all deserved more Jackie in the game, CDPR can still deliver on that by giving us either a prequel DLC that covers the period of time between the Prologue and the game proper or by expanding on the Jackie Engram Theory.
@@dansanga that's actually a good idea
Idk if anyone else did this, but if you call Jackie after his passing, you can actually let V give a voice message of events you did in the story so far. It’s a nice touch.
I've tried calling him numerous of times, am I just that unlucky to never call on the right mission to leave him a voicemail?
@@AndrewAMMay Have you tried doing it after finishing a mission?
@@user-xh8df9oz4y like, literally right after one? I dont believe so :L that could be it
@@AndrewAMMay Yeah I think that's when it works, not during when you're already in a mission. Although I could be wrong about that.
I love this review, but did find it amusing that your favorite part (the shootout chase with the motorcycles) that you said was "polished" does not actually require you to shoot the enemies. They will crash and die without your help. Same for any of the chases. Also note, you, yourself can not shoot from a motorcycle, while those enemies could.
Exactly. That really made me question his thought process. But to each their own ig.
9 months late. At 1:08:40 , it does make sense. Its hard to miss lol but, jackie and the cop are childhood friends thats why he let them go.
The chase sequences are scripted, you can't die.
You can literally put the controller down and go take a piss.
You know, like cdpr did with the game.
Wrong. You can be flat-lined during chase sequences so wtf are you talking about?
@@Beyondqqq it might be a bug, but I had the same thing happen to me. I didn’t shoot at all during two chase sequences and they completed regardless
@@RoadtoArkham Didn't know such a bug existed. My first death was in the first chase sequence so called bullshit. People just want to hate this game at this stage.
@@Beyondqqq that’s just what happens when you promise the world and deliver something objectively bad
@@craigstarbird6915 Outside of the glitches and technical aspects of the game people expected too much and set themselves up for disappointment. People were expecting Forza levels of driving, Doom levels of shooting mechanics and dark souls level melee combat while being the deepest RPG imaginable with city interaction as layered and varied as GTA.
About to start listening to this during my boring retail job. Thank god it’s a long one. Thankyou Luke!
I will listen to it at work, too... no need to hear my stupid coworkers
V is the most dangerous, psychotic driver in Night City, his insurance must be insane.
V: insurance, what insurance?
This game genuinely broke my heart, I supported CDPR because both the Witcher 2 and 3 had become so personal for me that it kept me busy when I was in a serious state of depression. I met Doug Cockle and he autographed my game and a statue of his and apparently I'm the first person he ever did that for. I put several hundred hours into these games several times. I even changed my PSN gamer tag to CDProjektBlue and made a custom blue logo for my account and got an Igni and Aard tattoo. I was a major fan boy for them so to see how little love and care they gave this game they had hyped for years since I was little was enough to make me not trust any other games they publish unless they decide to finally fix their game. Cringe I know but still the company and their Witcher franchise helped me through a lot so I saw them as a company who could do no wrong 😤
1:49:06 not sure if anyone mentioned this but if you send Jackie to his mother you get given a nice funeral quest later on where V says goodbye to Jackie and gets his motorbike
This may sound strange but Sending jackie to his mother is the only right choice imho
If you say that you'll be back for Jackie, delamin sends the body to his family, as it is a exclusive service for the "exelsior pack". If you send the body to Viktor Arasaka steals the body to turn Jackie into a AI for interrogation
Iv done all the options for that bike you get that funeral mission regardless
@@trolltime2128 no not true I never went to funeral and the quest never appeared. I had them take Jackie to victors
@@kriskater really ??
I guess I'll take 5 hours off today
Wasted 5 hours
@@Daniel-wj8uf Nah just listen to it while doing stuff
For me this is work
Time well spent
@@Daniel-wj8uf True, it was just a plot summary.
“Most people will probably quit before they can buy a 45000 dollar body mod”
Modding back in the console: Please allow me to introduce myself, I’m a man of wealth and taste
Once there were significant updates to the game and it was actually playable, I really enjoyed it. But it’s unfortunate that it was unplayable in the first place.
2015 was insane. TW3, Bloodborne, Fallout 4, and MGSV just to name a few.
Pffft Fallout 4... I admit that i dislike so much Bethesda Game Studios, for what they have done to the Fallout franchise and TES series, and how the "RPG" aspect of their games got worse each time... when i heard that Cyberpunk 2077 had less RPG elements i knew CD Projekt Red fucked it up big time. I don't know man, it was a good year but it wasn't that amazing.
2018 was more awesome
MGSV is bad and it's incomplete. Fallout 4 is overhyped mediocrity. it's a massive downgrade. Obsidian with 18 months of development made a way better game = New Vegas.
@@SapiaNt0mata MGSV was great. You're definitely in the minority with that opinion.
@@TheGrizNation nope, and being unfinished with missing content made it even worse. sometimes the majority isn't always right. MGSV is one of those times.
cyberpunk is a heartbreaking game in every sense of the way. Truly wasted what was a gold mine IP
True, still haven't finished it and I actually enjoy it, but it feels like a giant missed opportunity, and it sucks me in much less than TW3 did - I literally played whole-nighters of that one cause I couldn't put it down. Sad, because it has massive potential: the story was cool, combat is nice enough (especially sniping feels awesome) and some of the characters were too. It mostly feels a bit empty in the end. So much stuff to see, but not too much to do. Just for one silly thing in comparison: it's supposed to be this apocalyptic mix of LA and Las Vegas, and it literally has less prostitutes (you can interact with) in the whole city than Crippled Kate's had in TW3. I wanted casino's to spend my money in. I wanted to be able to buy penthouses and the likes. I wanted to be able to play the stupid little roach game in the fist bar. I wanted to have wild braindances like the guys in those clubs. I wanted to drive one of those flying cars. I wanted this world to feel lived in more than anything else. If they actually had gotten all the time they needed to finish it, it could have been truly superb. Now it's just good, but not great.
@@Johnnythefirst completely agree. maybe my fault for wishful thinking, but outside o the amazing story, I expected GTA-like world depth and quality of life but in a scifi environment.
@@ElectrusBoom mood that's what a good game does
@@AltairStealth I never played GTA5 (I'll start after i finish Cyberpunk), but GTA suffered a bit of the same problems. 95% of the buildings in GTA4 could not be entered. Ok, it's a much older game of course...
@@ElectrusBoom I only first played it in 2019, because I was a rabid TES fan and it felt like cheating ( :p ). But my got, four months well spent. The DLC is as good or maybe better than the main game as well...
When you have only seen the title and go: that's what hurts the most.
I'm so glad I tempered my expectations for Cyberpunk 2077. I wasnt disappointed at all, and I tried so hard to warn people to check themselves, but only one person heeded my warnings.
The choice where to send Jackie's body is actually important. It determines whether you get access to Jackie's Ofreda or an encounter with Jackie's Engram during the endings.
I restarted the game when i found out what happens to Jackies body. Sent it to his family, he deserved a good send off.
Pretty sure that doesn’t matter because Jackie’s body gets picked up by Arasaka regardless of your choice.
I told Delamain to wait. Later he tells me that he delivered the body to his family. And Jackie’s mother tells me she never got the body.
@@frenchfriedbagel7035 nope only if sent to doc, if his family has it they give him a send off. No engrams of Jackie at the end. Takemura doesn't mention arasaka taking his body.
@@Kir_Geo In my playthrough his mother literally says “If only I had his body” during the funeral.
@@frenchfriedbagel7035 hmm been a while since i played. Did tou see his engram at the end? In the dream sequence?
I feel that if you put your linear action game in an open rpg world, that world needs be believable. The more I played Cyberpunk, the more I realised that the sandbox aspect of the game was a very, very shallow illusion.
People have rightly criticised Skyrim for being a wide shallo sandbox, but compared to Cyberpunk, it's as deep as an ocean...I've played pokemon games with more world interactions than cyberpunk.
what I truly miss is the ability to actually engage with things in the world outside of missions... To visit a cafe, check into a hotel, go to a club.. make enemies or friends with certain groups ect.. In cyberpunk You can go to these places, but you can't interact with them.. the world doesn't aknowledge them as real places.. they're merely surface level set dressing for the exact same brain dead Npc's you'll find everywhere else...
In Cyberpunk, everything outside of the missions is just that, w set dressing that falls apart at the slightest scrutiny... The more you play, the less the world seems real.
Dead on. ✊
The world of cyberpunk could have worked if it did it in the vein of like deus ex. Large sandbox areas that you can go to instead of just a massive open world. This way the quests can be written in a way that is a lot more focused.
"The whole game is going to be a meme" - CD Projekt Red circa 2019
“We want the game to launch with the same level of polish as RDR2” -CDPR
@@frenchfriedbagel7035 BUT IT DIDN'T
@@thundageon5962 exactly
*Guy throws table and screams*
Can’t deny it it’s true
*spoiler plays*
With a grain of Keanu Reeves on top
2:31:20 You can see Oda again in at least one other occasion (as you realized by 3:39:15) when you are working with Hanako (just an extra gun on your side, not that you need it because you alone can toast all the enemies with ease). But I think Oda only shows up if you went back to save Takemura.
I quit the game after 10 hours. You can talk all day about the bugs and glitches, but what killed it for me is that they quietly changed the game from an RPG to Action/Adventure.
And a bad loot system
what killed it for me was teh char customization, or give me a fully written char like geralt i can customize a bit, or Kratos form the last GoW(you change his armor, axe and blades) or a blank fully customizable character like fo4 or skyrim, it baffles me that Crusader kings 3, a fucking stratgy game has a better deeper character creator system than this, if you are sick, your lord will luck sick, if you have the beautiful trait, the lord will look gorgeous, if you were wounde din battle your lord will look wonded for sometime, and your sons/daugtehrs will look like you and your spouse, WTF is an strategy game, that kind of stuff is not needed but is there, and in game where it was actually neede (in night city, style is everything remember that quote), all main characters i saw look the same, the cloths are stupid (you cant look good if you want to survive as the ugliest rags tend to come with higher number rating that pristine designer cloths wtf) and you cant change your char after that, and you can only see it in mirrors... which sometimes fail due to bugs, fuck this game, they killed the last piece of hope i had in games
Just returning now to say that the game is now a masterpiece.
> Basically Stardew Valley
Hey, I'll have you know that Stardew Valley also makes it so if you try romancing everybody they'll all break up with you,
There's that little game called my time at Portia,if you're officially date someone and then go on a date with someone else,you might get caught if they see you cheating,you'll get called out. I love when indie developers put multibillion corporations to shame.
They even did that very thing in the Witcher 3
Also, Persona 4 & 5. But not 3 though.
Well, they don't really break up with you, they just get mad at you unless you're carrying a rabbit's foot.
@@muhammadfaizmohdnasiruddin9854 Only the Golden Version of P4. Nothing happens in the original. Also it’s less of they break up with you, but rather you are forced to tell them to their face that you like someone else better. Which is like, way worse.
Wow it's crazy to think of now that the hype is gone...
... that i completely forgot about CP2077 for a good 2 months, easily the most frustrating gaming experiences of my life. Hype dies very fast.
I remember thinking of this game every single day for years
Yeah, i got so sad to the final product that i kinda erased off my mind and got to play something else.
I sort of felt this too, it's not a bad game but there is so much missing for an RPG game.
Yea me too, I legit forgot this game came out.
Cyberpunk had sooooo much potential tho. Had it on PS5 and the only problem I had was the crashes. Never finished it but def willing to give it another try when the next gen patch comes out
I legit feel sorry for the hyped fans who bought Cyberpunk merch, like the jackets, t-shirts, the custom gaming chair, the custom 2080Ti graphics card, the custom Xbox One X, etc, only for the game to be a complete disaster, now they're left with the constant reminder of it
The fact Jackie already knows you and you’re already best buds right at the start of the corpo life path doesn’t make any sense at all. The street kid lifepath where you’re at his moms bar in Heywood and somehow for whatever baffling reason you and Jackie have never met. I guess they tried to justify this plothole with you returning from Atlanta but still you would think V and Jackie would be lifelong bffs cause they’re both street kids. It’s really weird how they handled that.